{"id":7827,"date":"2020-06-26T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:16:31","slug":"evaluation-of-rapid-antigen-test-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/26\/evaluation-of-rapid-antigen-test-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of\u00a0Rapid\u00a0Antigen Test for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mak et al. found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the rapid BIOCREDIT COVID-19 Ag<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for SARS-CoV-2 antigen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which can provide results within 30 minutes and without specialized equipment, had a markedly lower sensitivity than viral culture or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RT<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(29<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a08<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to RT-PCR positive samples)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These results indicate that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing of patients suspected of SARS-CoV-2 infection with antigen-based assay may produce more false negative results in clinical practice<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to RT-PCR testing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Mak et al. (June<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a08,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Evaluation of\u00a0Rapid\u00a0Antigen Test for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus. Journal of Clinical\u00a0Virology\u202f<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104500\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104500<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>Mak et al. found\u00a0that\u00a0the rapid BIOCREDIT COVID-19 Ag\u00a0test\u00a0for SARS-CoV-2 antigen, which can provide results within 30 minutes and without specialized equipment, had a markedly lower sensitivity than viral culture or\u00a0RT-PCR\u00a0(29%\u00a0to\u00a082%\u00a0compared to RT-PCR positive samples).\u00a0 These results indicate that\u00a0testing of patients suspected of SARS-CoV-2 infection with antigen-based assay may produce more false negative results in clinical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/26\/evaluation-of-rapid-antigen-test-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus\/\">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-7827","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\/7827","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=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}