{"id":1243,"date":"2020-09-30T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:05:35","slug":"comparative-study-of-four-sars-cov-2-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-naat-platforms-demonstrates-that-id-now-performance-is-impaired-substantially-by-patient-and-specimen-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/comparative-study-of-four-sars-cov-2-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-naat-platforms-demonstrates-that-id-now-performance-is-impaired-substantially-by-patient-and-specimen-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Study of Four SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) Platforms Demonstrates That ID NOW Performance Is Impaired Substantially by Patient and Specimen Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) platform Abbott ID NOW performed significantly worse than similar tests (Abbott m2000, DiaSorine Simplexa, and Cepheid Xpert) in detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a comparative study. All four tests were used in parallel on nasopharyngeal and nasal samples from 88 emergency department and hospital-admitted patients. In particular, the ID NOW platform performed poorly in samples with a low viral load (high cycle time) that were detected as positive by the other tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lephart et al. (Sept 3, 2021). Comparative Study of Four SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) Platforms Demonstrates That ID NOW Performance Is Impaired Substantially by Patient and Specimen Type. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115200\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115200<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) platform Abbott ID NOW performed significantly worse than similar tests (Abbott m2000, DiaSorine Simplexa, and Cepheid Xpert) in detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a comparative study. All four tests were used in parallel on nasopharyngeal and nasal samples from 88 emergency department and hospital-admitted patients. In particular, the ID NOW&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/comparative-study-of-four-sars-cov-2-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-naat-platforms-demonstrates-that-id-now-performance-is-impaired-substantially-by-patient-and-specimen-type\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,75,76,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-report","tag-summarize","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}