{"id":7253,"date":"2020-06-01T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:41:42","slug":"performance-of-abbott-id-now-covid-19-rapid-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-in-nasopharyngeal-swabs-transported-in-viral-media-and-dry-nasal-swabs-in-a-new-york-city-academic-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/performance-of-abbott-id-now-covid-19-rapid-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-in-nasopharyngeal-swabs-transported-in-viral-media-and-dry-nasal-swabs-in-a-new-york-city-academic-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of Abbott ID NOW COVID-19 Rapid Nucleic Acid Amplification Test in Nasopharyngeal Swabs Transported in Viral Media and Dry Nasal Swabs, in a New York City Academic Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Basu\u00a0et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0evaluated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the performance of the\u00a0recently<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">released\u00a0Abbott ID NOW COVID-19 assay for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection with the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2. They found that the ID NOW\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">assay\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">has utility as a rapid rule-in test for COVID-19 with samples at high viral load<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0however, an overall low positive percent agreement (55%-67%) of ID NOW with Xpert Xpress raises concerns regarding its suitability as a diagnostic tool in samples with lower viral loads.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Basu\u00a0et al. (May\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">29,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Performance of Abbott ID NOW COVID-19 Rapid Nucleic Acid Amplification Test in Nasopharyngeal Swabs Transported in Viral Media and Dry Nasal Swabs, in a New York City Academic Institution. Journal of Clinical Microbiology.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01136-20\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01136-20<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basu\u00a0et al.\u00a0evaluated\u00a0the performance of the\u00a0recently&#8211;released\u00a0Abbott ID NOW COVID-19 assay for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection with the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2. They found that the ID NOW\u00a0assay\u00a0has utility as a rapid rule-in test for COVID-19 with samples at high viral load;\u00a0however, an overall low positive percent agreement (55%-67%) of ID NOW with Xpert Xpress raises concerns regarding&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/performance-of-abbott-id-now-covid-19-rapid-nucleic-acid-amplification-test-in-nasopharyngeal-swabs-transported-in-viral-media-and-dry-nasal-swabs-in-a-new-york-city-academic-institution\/\">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-7253","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\/7253","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=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}