{"id":4456,"date":"2021-02-19T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:02:36","slug":"multicenter-evaluation-of-the-panbiotm-covid-19-rapid-antigen-detection-test-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/multicenter-evaluation-of-the-panbiotm-covid-19-rapid-antigen-detection-test-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicenter Evaluation of the PanbioTM COVID-19 Rapid Antigen-Detection Test for the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prospective multi-center study conducted in Spain found that the PanbioTM COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device, which tests for SARS-CoV-2 using nasopharyngeal swabs, has an overall sensitivity of 91% and specificity of 99%. Among the 128 asymptomatic participants who had close contact with a COVID-19 patient, there was full concordance in the 31 (24%) who were positive by RT-PCR and in the 97 that were negative.<\/p>\n<p><i>Merino et al.\u00a0(Feb 2021). Multicenter Evaluation of the PanbioTM COVID-19 Rapid Antigen-Detection Test for the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2021.02.001\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2021.02.001<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prospective multi-center study conducted in Spain found that the PanbioTM COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device, which tests for SARS-CoV-2 using nasopharyngeal swabs, has an overall sensitivity of 91% and specificity of 99%. Among the 128 asymptomatic participants who had close contact with a COVID-19 patient, there was full concordance in the 31 (24%) who&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/multicenter-evaluation-of-the-panbiotm-covid-19-rapid-antigen-detection-test-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">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":[117,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antigen","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}