{"id":5571,"date":"2020-03-31T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:57:48","slug":"diagnostic-indexes-of-a-rapid-igg-igm-combined-antibody-test-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/31\/diagnostic-indexes-of-a-rapid-igg-igm-combined-antibody-test-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Indexes of a Rapid IgG\/IgM Combined Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several new studies demonstrate that antibody tests have important diagnostic value in addition to RNA tests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ying et al found an IgG\/IgM combined test was easy to use, had adequate sensitivity and specificity, short turnaround time and no specific requirements for additional equipment or skilled technicians. They suggest it could be used for mass testing in combination with RT-PCR testing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ying et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Diagnostic Indexes of a Rapid IgG\/IgM Combined Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded Mar 30 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20044883\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20044883<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new studies demonstrate that antibody tests have important diagnostic value in addition to RNA tests.\u00a0\u00a0 Ying et al found an IgG\/IgM combined test was easy to use, had adequate sensitivity and specificity, short turnaround time and no specific requirements for additional equipment or skilled technicians. They suggest it could be used for mass testing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/31\/diagnostic-indexes-of-a-rapid-igg-igm-combined-antibody-test-for-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}