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. 2022 Jan:299:114337.
doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114337. Epub 2021 Oct 20.

SARS-CoV-2 microfluidic antigen point-of-care testing in Emergency Room patients during COVID-19 pandemic

Elisa Burdino  1 , Francesco Cerutti  2 , Francesco Panero  3 , Tiziano Allice  2 , Gabriella Gregori  2 , Maria Grazia Milia  2 , Giulia Cavalot  3 , Andrea Altavilla  3 , Franco Aprà  3 , Valeria Ghisetti  2
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SARS-CoV-2 microfluidic antigen point-of-care testing in Emergency Room patients during COVID-19 pandemic

Elisa Burdino et al. J Virol Methods. 2022 Jan.

Abstract

In Emergency Room, Point-of-care antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 antigen can expedite clinical strategies for patient management. We tested 1,232 consecutive patients during Italian second wave peak using the recent LumiraDx microfluidic assay. This assay showed high concordance (96.9 %), sensitivity and specificity compared to molecular testing, being highly valuable.

Keywords: Antigen test; COVID-19; Emergency room; POCT; SARS-CoV-2.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Mean Ct across viral genes values for the LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test (LDT-Ag) positive and negative tests in the studied group.
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