{"id":9713,"date":"2021-05-11T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T22:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:47:22","slug":"asymptomatic-individuals-positive-for-anti-sars-cov-2-antibodies-negative-on-molecular-swab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/asymptomatic-individuals-positive-for-anti-sars-cov-2-antibodies-negative-on-molecular-swab\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic Individuals Positive for Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Negative on Molecular Swab"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only 1% (n=212) of over 16,000 frontline workers developed detectable anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during screening in Italy from May to June 2020. Among antibody-positive individuals, only one tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA under a protocol that required antibody-positive participants to be given a PCR test. The authors suggest that performing a PCR test on antibody-positive participants to assess infectivity may be redundant for epidemiological surveys, particularly for largely asymptomatic populations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antonelli et al. (May 2021). Asymptomatic Individuals Positive for Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Negative on Molecular Swab. The Lancet Microbe. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-5247(21)00083-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-5247(21)00083-5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 1% (n=212) of over 16,000 frontline workers developed detectable anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during screening in Italy from May to June 2020. Among antibody-positive individuals, only one tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA under a protocol that required antibody-positive participants to be given a PCR test. The authors suggest that performing a PCR test on antibody-positive participants&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/asymptomatic-individuals-positive-for-anti-sars-cov-2-antibodies-negative-on-molecular-swab\/\">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":[67,107,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antibodies","tag-asymptomatic-infection","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","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=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}