{"id":5091,"date":"2021-02-24T18:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:09:31","slug":"self-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection-with-rapid-antigen-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/24\/self-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection-with-rapid-antigen-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Testing for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Rapid Antigen Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] <\/i>Self-testing for SARS-CoV-2 using rapid antigen detection kits (RDT) was found to have a high specificity (99.4%) and relatively high sensitivity (78%) to identify individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 RNA below a low cycle-time (CT) value threshold.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Low CT values are associated with high viral load and the authors suggest that is a as a proxy for contagiousness. Factors independently associated with false-negative results were older age, low viral load, and difficulty with self-testing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Stohr et al. (Feb 23, 2021). Self-Testing for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Rapid Antigen Tests. Pre-print downloaded Feb 24 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.21.21252153\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.21.21252153<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Self-testing for SARS-CoV-2 using rapid antigen detection kits (RDT) was found to have a high specificity (99.4%) and relatively high sensitivity (78%) to identify individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 RNA below a low cycle-time (CT) value threshold.\u00a0 Low CT values are associated with high viral load and the authors suggest that is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/24\/self-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection-with-rapid-antigen-tests\/\">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-5091","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\/5091","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=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}