Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lateral flow antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 with RT-PCR in primary care (REAP-2)

Testing for COVID-19 with quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) may result in delayed detection of disease. Antigen detection via lateral flow testing (LFT) is faster and amenable to population-wide testing strategies. Our study assesses the diagnostic accuracy of LFT...

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Hauptverfasser: Leber, Werner, Lammel, Oliver, Siebenhofer, Andrea, Redlberger-Fritz, Monika, Panovska-Griffiths, Jasmina, Czypionka, Thomas
Format: Article in Academic Journal PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Testing for COVID-19 with quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) may result in delayed detection of disease. Antigen detection via lateral flow testing (LFT) is faster and amenable to population-wide testing strategies. Our study assesses the diagnostic accuracy of LFT compared to RT-PCR on the same primarycare patients in Austria.