Abstract:
A method for detecting the presence or absence of a first analyte and of a second analyte in a sample comprises a subtractive immunoassay including in the following order the steps of: a) conjugating a first detector antibody to the first analyte in order to tag the first analyte with a first detector tag; b) conjugating a first capture antibody to the first analyte in order to capture the first analyte and to completely deplete the first analyte from the sample; c) conjugating a second detector antibody to the second analyte in the depleted sample in order to tag the second analyte with a second detector tag; d) conjugating a second capture antibody to the second analyte in order to capture the second analyte from the sample; e) detecting the presence or absence of the first and second detector tag at the site of the first and second capture antibody, respectively, and thereby detecting the presence or absence of the first analyte and of the second analyte in the sample.