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SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Individuals on the University of Arizona Campus
- Source :
- Biomedicines, Volume 9, Issue 5, Biomedicines, Vol 9, Iss 539, p 539 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID19, has caused a pandemic that has infected a pandemic that has infected more than 80 M and killed more than 1.6 M persons worldwide. In the US as of December 2020, it has infected more than 32 M people while causing more than 570,000 deaths. As the pandemic persists, there has been a public demand to reopen schools and university campuses. To consider these demands, it is necessary to rapidly identify those individuals infected with the virus and isolate them so that disease transmission can be stopped. In the present study, we examined the sensitivity of the Quidel Rapid Antigen test for use in screening both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals at the University of Arizona from June to August 2020. A total of 885 symptomatic and 1551 asymptomatic subjects were assessed by antigen testing and real-time PCR testing. The sensitivity of the test for both symptomatic and asymptomatic persons was between 82 and 90%, with some caveats.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
QH301-705.5
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Asymptomatic
Article
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Virus
diagnostic screening
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Pandemic
medicine
asymptomatic
rapid antigen test
030212 general & internal medicine
Biology (General)
Antigen testing
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
PCR
030104 developmental biology
Rapid antigen test
medicine.symptom
business
Disease transmission
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22279059
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biomedicines
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7fdfa62d792df12b8a39a465c88588ca