{"id":7778,"date":"2020-06-24T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:46:38","slug":"development-and-potential-usefulness-of-the-covid-19-ag-respi-strip-diagnostic-assay-in-a-pandemic-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/development-and-potential-usefulness-of-the-covid-19-ag-respi-strip-diagnostic-assay-in-a-pandemic-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Development and Potential Usefulness of the COVID-19 Ag\u00a0Respi-Strip Diagnostic Assay in a Pandemic Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Respi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-Strip is an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">immunochromatographic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(ICT) assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen on nasopharyngeal specimen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0provides diagnostic results within 15 minutes. When validated against RT-PCR tests (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=328), the assay had low sensitivity (57.6%) and high specificity (99.5%).<\/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\">Mertens<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (May 8, 2020). Development and Potential Usefulness of the COVID-19 Ag\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Respi<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">-Strip Diagnostic Assay in a Pandemic Context. Frontiers in Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2020.00225\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2020.00225<\/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>Respi-Strip is an\u00a0immunochromatographic\u00a0(ICT) assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen on nasopharyngeal specimens\u00a0that\u00a0provides diagnostic results within 15 minutes. When validated against RT-PCR tests (n=328), the assay had low sensitivity (57.6%) and high specificity (99.5%).\u00a0 Mertens\u00a0et al. (May 8, 2020). Development and Potential Usefulness of the COVID-19 Ag\u00a0Respi-Strip Diagnostic Assay in a Pandemic Context. Frontiers&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/development-and-potential-usefulness-of-the-covid-19-ag-respi-strip-diagnostic-assay-in-a-pandemic-context\/\">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-7778","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\/7778","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=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}