{"id":2159,"date":"2020-11-13T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:04:23","slug":"comparison-of-sars-cov-2-nasal-antigen-test-to-nasopharyngeal-rt-pcr-in-mildly-symptomatic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/13\/comparison-of-sars-cov-2-nasal-antigen-test-to-nasopharyngeal-rt-pcr-in-mildly-symptomatic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of SARS-COV-2 Nasal Antigen Test to Nasopharyngeal RT-PCR in Mildly Symptomatic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study evaluating the diagnostic performance of a rapid antigen detection test (RADT) indicated that the sensitivity and specificity were 82.1% and 99.1% respectively in patients with mild COVID-19 in a high incidence setting, and the performance was especially high among samples with a high viral load. Nasal samples from male patients (n = 4183) with mild symptoms were tested using both the RADT and RT-PCR, and the kappa coefficient of agreement between the rapid antigen test and RT-PCR was 0.859. The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the study population was 17.5%. The authors note that this test was intended to supplement RT-PCR testing, not replace it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Abdulrahman et al. (Nov 13, 2020). Comparison of SARS-COV-2 Nasal Antigen Test to Nasopharyngeal RT-PCR in Mildly Symptomatic Patients. MedRxiv. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.10.20228973\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.10.20228973<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study evaluating the diagnostic performance of a rapid antigen detection test (RADT) indicated that the sensitivity and specificity were 82.1% and 99.1% respectively in patients with mild COVID-19 in a high incidence setting, and the performance was especially high among samples with a high viral load. Nasal samples from male patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/13\/comparison-of-sars-cov-2-nasal-antigen-test-to-nasopharyngeal-rt-pcr-in-mildly-symptomatic-patients\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2159","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\/2159","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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}