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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2021

Performance Evaluation of the BD SARS-CoV-2 Reagents for the BD MAX System.

Karen Yanson, William Laviers, Lori Neely, Elizabeth Lockamy, Luis Carlos Castillo-Hernandez, Christopher Oldfied, Ronald Ackerman, Jamie Ackerman, Daniel A Ortiz, Sixto Pacheco and 4 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Clinical performance evaluation of BD SARS-CoV-2 reagents for BD MAXDiagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Karen YansonBecton, Dickinson and Company, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
William LaviersBecton, Dickinson and Company, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
Lori NeelyBecton, Dickinson and Company, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
Elizabeth LockamyBecton, Dickinson and Company, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
Luis Carlos Castillo-HernandezCTMD Research, Palm Springs, Florida, USA.
Christopher OldfiedFellows Research Alliance, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, USA.
Ronald AckermanComprehensive Clinical Research, LLC, West Palm, Florida, USA.
Jamie AckermanComprehensive Clinical Research, LLC, West Palm, Florida, USA.
Daniel A OrtizWilliam Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6100-1822
Sixto PachecoBioCollections Worldwide, Inc., Miami, Florida, USA.
Patricia J SimnerJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6134-151X
Stephen YoungTricore Reference Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Erin McElvaniaNorthShore University Health System, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Charles K CooperBecton, Dickinson and Company, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Sparks, Maryland, USA.

Funding

BD Biosciences (Becton Dickenson Biosciences)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) for SARS-CoV-2 is the standard approach for confirming COVID-19 cases. This study compared results between two emergency use authorization (EUA) NAATs, with two additional EUA NAATs utilized for discrepant testing. The limits of detection (LOD) for the BD SARS-CoV-2 reagents for the BD MAX system (MAX SARS-CoV-2 assay), the bioMérieux BioFire respiratory panel 2.1 (BioFire SARS-CoV-2 assay), the Roche cobas SARS-CoV-2 assay (cobas SARS-CoV-2 assay), and the Hologic Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay Panther (Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay) NAAT systems were determined using a total of 84 contrived nasopharyngeal specimens with 7 target levels for each comparator. The positive and negative percent agreement (PPA and NPA, respectively) of the MAX SARS-CoV-2 assay, compared to the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay, was evaluated in a postmarket clinical study utilizing 708 nasopharyngeal specimens collected from suspected COVID-19 cases. Discordant testing was achieved using the cobas and BioFire SARS-CoV-2 NAATs. In this study, the measured LOD for the MAX SARS-CoV-2 assay (251 copies/ml; 95% confidence interval [CI], 186 to 427) was comparable to the cobas SARS-CoV-2 assay (298 copies/ml; 95% CI, 225 to 509) and the BioFire SARS-CoV-2 assay (302 copies/ml; 95% CI, 219 to 565); the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay had an LOD of 612 copies/ml (95% CI, 474 to 918). The MAX SARS-CoV-2 assay had a PPA of 100% (95% CI, 97.3% to 100.0%) and an NPA of 96.7% (95% CI, 94.9% to 97.9%) compared to the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay. The clinical performance of the MAX SARS-CoV-2 assay agreed with another sensitive EUA assay.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2COVID-19 TestingHumansIndicators and ReagentsMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNasopharynxSensitivity and SpecificityIndicators and ReagentsagreementBD MAXCOVID-19Hologic Aptimanucleic acid amplification testRT-qPCRSARS-CoV-2

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PMID34586894
PMCPMC8601249

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