{"id":1839,"date":"2020-10-28T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:15:19","slug":"head-to-head-comparison-of-sars-cov-2-antigen-detecting-rapid-test-with-self-collected-anterior-nasal-swab-versus-professional-collected-nasopharyngeal-swab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/28\/head-to-head-comparison-of-sars-cov-2-antigen-detecting-rapid-test-with-self-collected-anterior-nasal-swab-versus-professional-collected-nasopharyngeal-swab\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-to-Head Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen-Detecting Rapid Test with Self-Collected Anterior Nasal Swab versus Professional-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> A direct comparison between the STANDARD Q-COVID-19 Antigen Test (Ag-RDT) (Roche) and an approved RT-PCR (Roche Cobas) in samples obtained from 289 ambulatory participants demonstrated that the sensitivity of Ag-RDT with a supervised, self-collected anterior nasal swab sampling was 74.4% and specificity was 99.2%. The sensitivity with a professional-collected nasopharyngeal swab was 79.5% and specificity was 99.6%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Lindner et al. (Oct 27, 2020). Head-to-Head Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen-Detecting Rapid Test with Self-Collected Anterior Nasal Swab versus Professional-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swab. Pre-print downloaded Oct 28 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.26.20219600\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.26.20219600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A direct comparison between the STANDARD Q-COVID-19 Antigen Test (Ag-RDT) (Roche) and an approved RT-PCR (Roche Cobas) in samples obtained from 289 ambulatory participants demonstrated that the sensitivity of Ag-RDT with a supervised, self-collected anterior nasal swab sampling was 74.4% and specificity was 99.2%. The sensitivity with a professional-collected nasopharyngeal swab&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/28\/head-to-head-comparison-of-sars-cov-2-antigen-detecting-rapid-test-with-self-collected-anterior-nasal-swab-versus-professional-collected-nasopharyngeal-swab\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}