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Abstract
A polarographic enzyme-immunoassay for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen(HBsAg) has been established, in which horseradish peroxidase(HRP) is used as the labeled enzyme, o-phenylenediamine(OPD) as the substrate, and the enzyme-generated product,2,2′-diaminoazobenzene (DAA). is detected by linear-potential scan polarography. Under optimal conditions, the second derivative current of DAA is linear with the concentration of HBsAg from 0.1 to 5 ng/mL. The correlation coefficient(r) is 0.9994. The detection limit is 0.05ng/mL and the relative standard deviation is 6.7%(8 replicates). The sensitivity of the assay is about 20-fold higher than that of ELISA. The assay has been successfully applied for minute determination of HBsAg in both human serum and the negative control serum from ELISA kits.