The Sansure® Human Papillomavirus DNA Diagnostic Kit offers excellent reproducibility performance for the detection of high-risk HPV

Cervical cancer screening is a cornerstone of cervical cancer elimination. Detection of high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) is recommended as the first step in screening provided that the assay used has been adequately validated. The Sansure (R) Human Papillomavirus DNA Diagnostic Kit is a new assay designed to detect HPV16, HPV18 and 13 other HPV in aggregate. The study aimed to evaluate the intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility of the assay according to international guidelines. Five hundred and fifty cervical residual cell samples from women attending cervical cancer screening were selected from the biobank of the HPV National Reference Centre in Belgium and used in this study. After DNA extraction, HPV was tested using the Sansure (R) Human Papillomavirus DNA Diagnostic Kit. The lower 95% confidence limit around the general reproducibility of this assay should be greater than or equal to 87%, with kappa >= 0.50. Five hundred and thirty-three samples had valid results. The Sansure (R) Human Papillomavirus DNA Diagnostic Kit demonstrated an excellent intra-laboratory reproducibility of 93.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 91.4-95.7, kappa = 0.85). The interlaboratory reproducibility was 93.4 (95% CI: 91.0-95.4, kappa = 0.84). Intra and interlaboratory reproducibility were also excellent at the genotype level. Excluding HPV53 single infection samples from the analyses also resulted in excellent agreement. These data show that the Sansure (R) Human Papillomavirus DNA Diagnostic Kit is highly reproducible.