{"id":3410,"date":"2021-01-25T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:24:27","slug":"antigen-based-testing-but-not-real-time-polymerase-chain-reaction-correlates-with-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-viral-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/25\/antigen-based-testing-but-not-real-time-polymerase-chain-reaction-correlates-with-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-viral-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Antigen-Based Testing but Not Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Correlates With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Viral Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antigen testing using the BD Veritor System for SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated a higher positive predictive value (90%) than rt-PCR (70%) with the Quidel Lyra SARS-CoV-2 Assay when compared to virus culture as the gold standard. The positive percentage agreement for detection of infectious virus for the antigen test was similar to rt-PCR when compared to culture results. The authors suggest that the low cost and scalability of antigen-based testing could be important for suppressing community transmission.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Pekosz et al. (Jan 20, 2021). Antigen-Based Testing but Not Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Correlates With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Viral Culture. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1706\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1706<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antigen testing using the BD Veritor System for SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated a higher positive predictive value (90%) than rt-PCR (70%) with the Quidel Lyra SARS-CoV-2 Assay when compared to virus culture as the gold standard. The positive percentage agreement for detection of infectious virus for the antigen test was similar to rt-PCR when compared to culture&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/25\/antigen-based-testing-but-not-real-time-polymerase-chain-reaction-correlates-with-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-viral-culture\/\">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":[27,38],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-transmission","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}