{"id":2435,"date":"2020-11-30T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:50:41","slug":"clinical-performance-of-the-point-of-care-cobas-liat-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-20-minutes-a-multicenter-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/clinical-performance-of-the-point-of-care-cobas-liat-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-20-minutes-a-multicenter-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Performance of the Point-of-Care Cobas Liat for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in 20 Minutes: A Multicenter Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-site US study comparing the clinical performance of two cobas\u00ae RT-PCR tests, the Liat point of care test versus the most widely used test, the 68\/8800 test, found that tests showed similar performance characteristics. The Liat test provides results in approximately 20 minutes. Overall agreement between the Liat and 68\/8800 systems for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics was 98.6% (352\/357). Using Liat, positive percent agreement for SARS-CoV-2 was 100% (162\/162) and the negative percent agreement was 97.4% (190\/195).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Hansen et al. (Nov 25, 2020). Clinical Performance of the Point-of-Care Cobas Liat for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in 20 Minutes: A Multicenter Study. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.02811-20\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.02811-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-site US study comparing the clinical performance of two cobas\u00ae RT-PCR tests, the Liat point of care test versus the most widely used test, the 68\/8800 test, found that tests showed similar performance characteristics. The Liat test provides results in approximately 20 minutes. Overall agreement between the Liat and 68\/8800 systems for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/clinical-performance-of-the-point-of-care-cobas-liat-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-20-minutes-a-multicenter-study\/\">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-2435","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\/2435","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=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}