Evaluation of rapid antigen test for detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus

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BACKGROUND: The rapid diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients is essential to reduce the disease spread. Rapid antigen detection (RAD) tests are available, however, there is scanty data on the performance of RAD tests.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the commercially available BIOCREDIT COVID-19 Ag test and compare it with RT-PCR for detecting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Analytical sensitivity for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus was determined for the RAD test using viral culture and RT-PCR as reference methods. The RAD test was further evaluated using respiratory samples collected from confirmed COVID-19 patients. The results were compared with RT-PCR test.

RESULTS: The detection limits between RAD test, viral culture and RT-PCR varied hugely. RAD was 103 fold less sensitive than viral culture while RAD was 105 fold less sensitive than RT-PCR. The RAD test detected between 11.1 % and 45.7 % of RT-PCR-positive samples from COVID-19 patients.

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that the RAD test serves only as adjunct to RT-PCR test because of potential for false-negative results.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:129

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 129(2020) vom: 24. Aug., Seite 104500

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mak, Gannon Ck [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Peter Kc [VerfasserIn]
Lau, Stephen Sy [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Kitty Ky [VerfasserIn]
Lau, C S [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Edman Tk [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Rickjason Cw [VerfasserIn]
Tsang, Dominic Nc [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2019 novel coronavirus
Antigens, Viral
COVID-19
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
RT-PCR
Rapid antigen detection
SARS-CoV-2
Viral culture

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Date Completed 11.08.2020

Date Revised 10.01.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104500

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311639496