{"id":9975,"date":"2021-05-24T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:45:47","slug":"clinical-and-experimental-factors-that-affect-the-reported-performance-characteristics-of-rapid-testing-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/clinical-and-experimental-factors-that-affect-the-reported-performance-characteristics-of-rapid-testing-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical and Experimental Factors That Affect the Reported Performance Characteristics of Rapid Testing for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">systematic review (n = 83 studies) of the diagnostic accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen lateral flow testing (RALFT) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">compared to RT-qPCR <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">among symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals found the overall sensitivity for RALFT was 75%, and the sensitivity was higher among symptomatic individuals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">V<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iral load was the most important factor for test sensitivity, but other factors, such as specimen storage and anatomical collection type, also affected performance. RALFT and RT-qPCR testing were both highly sensitive compared to viral culture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parvu et al.\u00a0(May 22, 2021). Clinical and Experimental Factors That Affect the Reported Performance Characteristics of Rapid Testing for SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded May 24 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.20.21257181\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.20.21257181<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A systematic review (n = 83 studies) of the diagnostic accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen lateral flow testing (RALFT) compared to RT-qPCR among symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals found the overall sensitivity for RALFT was 75%, and the sensitivity was higher among symptomatic individuals. Viral load was the most important factor for test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/clinical-and-experimental-factors-that-affect-the-reported-performance-characteristics-of-rapid-testing-for-sars-cov-2\/\">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-9975","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\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9976,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}