ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2022
The Usefulness of Antigen Testing in Predicting Contagiousness in COVID-19.
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- Rapid, point-of-care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Cycle Threshold Values of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR during Outbreaks in Nursing Homes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Potential COVID-19 test fraud detection: Findings from a pilot study comparing conventional and statistical approaches.Journal of health monitoring · 2024Article
- Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 infection biomarkers in a household transmission study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The diagnostic performance evaluation of Panbio and STANDARD Q coronavirus disease 2019 antigen tests against real-time polymerase chain reaction in southern Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sandwich ELISA for the Quantification of Nucleocapsid Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Based on Polyclonal Antibodies from Two Different Species.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- The evaluation of a rapid microfluidic immunofluorescence antigen test in detecting the infectiousness of COVID-19 patients.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Use of Rapid Antigen Tests to End Isolation in a University Setting: Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Enhancing a SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen test sensitivity with cost efficient strategy through a cotton intermembrane insertion.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Rapid Antigen Tests during the COVID-19 Era in Korea and Their Implementation as a Detection Tool for Other Infectious Diseases.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023Review
- When Should Healthcare Workers With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Return to Work? An Analysis of Follow-up Antigen Test Results After a Positive COVID Test.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Adaptive strategies for the deployment of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19: a modelling study.Gates open research · 2023Article
- A loop-mediated isothermal amplification-enabled analytical assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2: A review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Diagnostic accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test from self-collected anterior nasal swabs in children compared to rapid antigen test and RT-PCR from nasopharyngeal swabs collected by healthcare workers: A multicentric prospective study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Increasing the diagnostic capacity for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) is required to improve case detection, reduce COVID-19 expansion, and boost the world economy. Rapid antigen detection tests are less expensive and easier to implement, but their diagnostic performance has been questioned compared to reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). Here, we evaluate the performance of the Standard Q COVID-19 antigen test for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection and predicting contagiousness compared to RT-PCR and viral culture, respectively. The antigen test was 100.0% specific but only 40.9% sensitive for diagnosing infection compared to RT-PCR. Interestingly, SARS-CoV-2 contagiousness is highly unlikely with a negative antigen test since it exhibited a negative predictive value of 99.9% compared to viral culture. Furthermore, a cycle threshold (
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