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. 2022 May;84(5):e64-e66.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.02.022. Epub 2022 Feb 22.

Real-life performance of a COVID-19 rapid antigen detection test targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein for diagnosis of COVID-19 due to the Omicron variant

Paula de Michelena  1 , Ignacio Torres  1 , Ángela Ramos-García  2 , Victoria Gozalbes  3 , Nidia Ruiz  4 , Ana Sanmartín  5 , Pilar Botija  5 , Sandrine Poujois  1 , Dixie Huntley  1 , Eliseo Albert  1 , David Navarro  6
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Real-life performance of a COVID-19 rapid antigen detection test targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein for diagnosis of COVID-19 due to the Omicron variant

Paula de Michelena et al. J Infect. 2022 May.
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Keywords: Covid-19; Field performance study; Omicron variant; Rapid antigen assay; Sars-CoV-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Fig. 1
Box-whisker plots depicting RT-PCR cycle threshold values (CT) (A) and viral RNA loads (B) in nasopharyngeal specimens collected from COVID-19 patients infected with the Omicron variant testing either positive or negative by the Panbio™ COVID-19 Ag rapid test device (abbott diagnostic GmbH, Jena, Germany). P values for comparisons are shown.
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