{"id":8637,"date":"2021-04-05T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:07:01","slug":"covid-19-rapid-antigen-test-as-screening-strategy-at-points-of-entry-experience-in-lazio-region-central-italy-august-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/covid-19-rapid-antigen-test-as-screening-strategy-at-points-of-entry-experience-in-lazio-region-central-italy-august-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test as Screening Strategy at Points of Entry: Experience in Lazio Region, Central Italy, August\u2013October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between mid-August to mid-October 2020, 1,176 of 73,643 rapid antigen test results (1.6%) were positive for travelers at points of entry in the Lazio Region of Italy via the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">STANDARD F COVID-19 Ag FIA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but only 40.5% antigen-positive samples also tested positive by RT-PCR. Antigen tests with a higher semiquantitative result were more likely to be confirmed by PCR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colavita et al. (Mar 13, 2021). COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test as Screening Strategy at Points of Entry: Experience in Lazio Region, Central Italy, August\u2013October 2020. Biomolecules. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/biom11030425\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/biom11030425<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between mid-August to mid-October 2020, 1,176 of 73,643 rapid antigen test results (1.6%) were positive for travelers at points of entry in the Lazio Region of Italy via the STANDARD F COVID-19 Ag FIA, but only 40.5% antigen-positive samples also tested positive by RT-PCR. Antigen tests with a higher semiquantitative result were more likely to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/covid-19-rapid-antigen-test-as-screening-strategy-at-points-of-entry-experience-in-lazio-region-central-italy-august-october-2020\/\">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":[27,116],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-travel","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8638,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}