{"id":6121,"date":"2020-04-17T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:19:41","slug":"rapid-serological-tests-have-a-role-in-asymptomatic-health-workers-covid-19-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/17\/rapid-serological-tests-have-a-role-in-asymptomatic-health-workers-covid-19-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Serological Tests Have a Role in Asymptomatic Health Workers COVID-19 Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To gain insight on the prevalence of asymptomatic cases among healthcare workers (HCWs), Paradiso et al tested 525 asymptomatic HCWs of a Cancer Institute in Vo\u2019Euganeo (a red zone quarantined area in Northern Italy) using VivaDiag<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> antibody<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">testing. They report that none of the 6 workers who tested positive for COVID-19 with the VivaDiag<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TM <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kit tested positive using RT-PCR testing, and at 1-week follow-up all 6 were still asymptomatic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They infer rapid antibody tests can have the ability to detect persons who had a previous contact with SARS-CoV-2, however these discordant results of antibody tests with RT-PCR stress show that further studies are needed to optimize the utilization of serologic test in asymptomatic persons who are at a high risk for infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paradiso et al. (Apr 17, 2020). Rapid Serological Tests Have a Role in Asymptomatic Health Workers COVID-19 Screening. Pre-print downloaded Apr 17 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.15.20057786\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.15.20057786<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To gain insight on the prevalence of asymptomatic cases among healthcare workers (HCWs), Paradiso et al tested 525 asymptomatic HCWs of a Cancer Institute in Vo\u2019Euganeo (a red zone quarantined area in Northern Italy) using VivaDiagTM antibody testing. They report that none of the 6 workers who tested positive for COVID-19 with the VivaDiagTM kit&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/17\/rapid-serological-tests-have-a-role-in-asymptomatic-health-workers-covid-19-screening\/\">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-6121","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\/6121","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=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}