{"id":9796,"date":"2021-05-14T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:42:53","slug":"diagnostic-performance-of-an-antigen-test-with-rt-pcr-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-hospital-setting-los-angeles-county-california-june-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/14\/diagnostic-performance-of-an-antigen-test-with-rt-pcr-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-hospital-setting-los-angeles-county-california-june-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Performance of an Antigen Test with RT-PCR for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a Hospital Setting \u2014 Los Angeles County, California, June\u2013August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An evaluation of the rapid Quidel Sofia 2 SARS Antigen FIA test in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at a large, tertiary medical center in Los Angeles found a lower sensitivity in symptomatic (72%) and asymptomatic (61%) patients compared to RT-PCR. Specificity of the Antigen test was &gt;98% in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. The authors suggest that persons with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 who test negative with a rapid antigen test should also receive confirmatory RT-PCR testing to reduce the risk of a false negative test result and prevent delays in diagnosis, isolation, and treatment of infected individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brihn et al. (May 14, 2021). Diagnostic Performance of an Antigen Test with RT-PCR for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a Hospital Setting \u2014 Los Angeles County, California, June\u2013August 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7019a3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7019a3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evaluation of the rapid Quidel Sofia 2 SARS Antigen FIA test in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at a large, tertiary medical center in Los Angeles found a lower sensitivity in symptomatic (72%) and asymptomatic (61%) patients compared to RT-PCR. Specificity of the Antigen test was &gt;98% in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. The authors&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/14\/diagnostic-performance-of-an-antigen-test-with-rt-pcr-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-hospital-setting-los-angeles-county-california-june-august-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],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9796","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\/9796","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=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}