{"id":8502,"date":"2020-07-27T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:28:46","slug":"point-of-care-serological-assays-for-delayed-sars-cov-2-case-identification-among-health-care-workers-in-the-uk-a-prospective-multicentre-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/point-of-care-serological-assays-for-delayed-sars-cov-2-case-identification-among-health-care-workers-in-the-uk-a-prospective-multicentre-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Point-of-Care Serological Assays for Delayed SARS-CoV-2 Case Identification among Health-Care Workers in the UK: A Prospective\u00a0Multicentre\u00a0Cohort Study"},"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\">A multicenter cohort study based in the UK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lateral flow\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">point-of-care\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and ELISA tests for SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">antibodies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had good positive and negative predictive values when conducted among a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">carefully selected population with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that\u00a0these test\u00a0have potential for late case identification\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among healthcare\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">workers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, but also discuss important limitations, including late development of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bands on lateral flow assays that may limit their application.<\/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\">Pallett et al. (July 24, 2020). Point-of-Care Serological Assays for Delayed SARS-CoV-2 Case Identification among Health-Care Workers in the UK: A Prospective\u00a0Multicentre\u00a0Cohort Study.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Respiratory Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30315-5\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30315-5<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>A multicenter cohort study based in the UK\u00a0found that\u00a0lateral flow\u00a0point-of-care\u00a0and ELISA tests for SARS-CoV-2\u00a0antibodies\u00a0had good positive and negative predictive values when conducted among a\u00a0carefully selected population with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection.\u00a0The authors conclude that\u00a0these test\u00a0have potential for late case identification\u00a0among healthcare\u00a0workers\u00a0with mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2\u00a0infection, but also discuss important limitations, including late development of\u00a0bands on lateral&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/point-of-care-serological-assays-for-delayed-sars-cov-2-case-identification-among-health-care-workers-in-the-uk-a-prospective-multicentre-cohort-study\/\">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-8502","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\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}