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. 2021 Jul;83(1):e1-e4.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.05.033. Epub 2021 May 29.

Lateral flow antigen tests can sensitively detect live cultured virus of the SARS-CoV-2 B1.1.7 lineage

Konstantina Kontogianni  1 , Ana I Cubas-Atienzar  1 , Dominic Wooding  1 , Kate Buist  1 , Caitlin R Thompson  1 , Christopher T Williams  1 , Lisa Baldwin  1 , Camille Escadafal  2 , Jilian A Sacks  2 , Emily R Adams  1 , Thomas Edwards  3
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Lateral flow antigen tests can sensitively detect live cultured virus of the SARS-CoV-2 B1.1.7 lineage

Konstantina Kontogianni et al. J Infect. 2021 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: Antigen detection; COVID-19; Limit of detection (LOD); Rapid diagnostic test (RDT); SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 (VOC-202,012/01).

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Conflicts of Competing Interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Sources of funding: The study was supported by the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). The funders of the study had no role in data collection and data analysis.

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Heatmap comparing the LODs of 17 Ag-RDT using the B.1.1.7 strain and the B.1. 2020 strain taken from a previously published work. Ag-RDT coloured green fulfilled WHO and UK DHSC.
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