{"id":9719,"date":"2021-05-11T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:49:56","slug":"sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-test-high-sensitivity-to-detect-infectious-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-test-high-sensitivity-to-detect-infectious-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test: High Sensitivity to Detect Infectious Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall sensitivity of the Panbio rapid antigen test was 71.8% and the sensitivity of the Orient Gene rapid antigen tests was 79.5% for the detection of 156 PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 positive samples. Tested against a panel of PCR-confirmed negative samples, the Panbio test achieved 100% specificity (130 of 130 negative samples) and the Orient Gene test achieved 79.5% specificity (131 of 176 negative samples). Both tests had improved sensitivities (&gt;88%) for samples with cycle threshold values &lt; 25. For samples with culturable virus, the Panbio and Orient Gene tests had sensitivities of 94.1% and 97.1%, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nordgren et al. (Apr 24, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test: High Sensitivity to Detect Infectious Virus. Journal of Clinical Virology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2021.104846\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2021.104846<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall sensitivity of the Panbio rapid antigen test was 71.8% and the sensitivity of the Orient Gene rapid antigen tests was 79.5% for the detection of 156 PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 positive samples. Tested against a panel of PCR-confirmed negative samples, the Panbio test achieved 100% specificity (130 of 130 negative samples) and the Orient Gene test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-test-high-sensitivity-to-detect-infectious-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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9720,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}