{"id":6890,"date":"2021-03-17T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:19:47","slug":"nasopharyngeal-panbio-covid-19-antigen-performed-at-point-of-care-has-a-high-sensitivity-in-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-patients-with-higher-risk-for-transmission-and-older-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/nasopharyngeal-panbio-covid-19-antigen-performed-at-point-of-care-has-a-high-sensitivity-in-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-patients-with-higher-risk-for-transmission-and-older-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasopharyngeal Panbio COVID-19 Antigen Performed at Point-of-Care Has a High Sensitivity in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients With Higher Risk for Transmission and Older Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Performance of the nasopharyngeal Panbio COVID-19 antigen (Ag) test was highly dependent on the cycle threshold (Ct) value. The Panbio test showed high sensitivity among older, symptomatic patients with a cycle threshold (Ct) value below 30 (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">indicating higher viral load<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). The positive percent agreement (PPA) relative to RT-PCR of 94% for Ct at \u226425 and 80% for Ct \u226430. Among patients who were symptomatic, the PPA was 95% for Ct \u226425, 85% for Ct \u226430, and 89% for symptoms of fever, cough, and malaise. In asymptomatic patients, the PPA was 86% for Ct \u226425.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Masi\u00e1 et al.\u00a0(Feb 2, 2021). Nasopharyngeal Panbio COVID-19 Antigen Performed at Point-of-Care Has a High Sensitivity in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients With Higher Risk for Transmission and Older Age. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab059\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab059<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance of the nasopharyngeal Panbio COVID-19 antigen (Ag) test was highly dependent on the cycle threshold (Ct) value. The Panbio test showed high sensitivity among older, symptomatic patients with a cycle threshold (Ct) value below 30 (indicating higher viral load). The positive percent agreement (PPA) relative to RT-PCR of 94% for Ct at \u226425 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/nasopharyngeal-panbio-covid-19-antigen-performed-at-point-of-care-has-a-high-sensitivity-in-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-patients-with-higher-risk-for-transmission-and-older-age\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","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=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6891,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}