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ArticleInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2021

Evaluation of the AMP SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test in a hospital setting.

Georg Leixner, Astrid Voill-Glaninger, Elisabeth Bonner, Anna Kreil, René Zadnikar, André Viveiros

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Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing (January 2023).Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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  3. Rapid, point-of-care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
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  10. The importance of disease prevalence in clinical decision making: a real practice study on COVID-19 antigen test in Curacao.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Georg LeixnerInstitute for Laboratory Medicine, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
Astrid Voill-GlaningerInstitute for Laboratory Medicine, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
Elisabeth BonnerInstitute for Pathology and Microbiology, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
Anna KreilEmergency Department, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
René ZadnikarInstitute for Laboratory Medicine, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
André ViveirosInstitute for Laboratory Medicine, Klinik Landstrasse, Vienna Healthcare Group, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: andre.viveiros@gesundheitsverbund.at.
Austrian Competence Centre of Food Safety · ATGesundheit Österreich · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesQuick and inexpensive SARS-CoV-2 screening and frontline testing are in growing demand. Our study aimed to evaluate the performance of the immunochromatographic AMP rapid antigen test (AMP RAT) compared to the gold-standard real-time reverse transcription PCR (rRT-PCR) in a hospital cohort.

methodsA total of 392 patients, who presented consecutively with COVID-19 symptoms in our emergency department, were included in this retrospective study. Two swabs were collected per patient: a nasopharyngeal for the RAT and a combined naso- and oropharyngeal for the rRT-PCR. A positive rRT-PCR (defined as cycle threshold (Ct) < 40) was found in 94 (24%) patients.

resultsIn our cohort with a median patient age of 70, overall sensitivity and specificity of the AMP RAT was 69.2% (58.8-78.3, 95% CI) and 99.7% (98.1-100.0, 95% CI), respectively. In patients with a Ct value < 25 and < 30, higher sensitivities of 100.0% (89.4-100.0, 95% CI) and 91.8% (81.9-97.3%, 95% CI) were observed.

conclusionsThe AMP RAT showed a high sensitivity in patients with a Ct value < 25 and < 30 and might be helpful for frontline testing whenever rRT-PCR is not readily available.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Adenosine MonophosphateHospitalsHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityAdenosine MonophosphateCoronavirusCOVID-19DiagnosisrRT-PCRScreening

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PMID34087486
PMCPMC8168346
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