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  • Evaluation of the rapid ant...
    García-Fernández, Sergio; Pablo-Marcos, Daniel; de la Fuente, Silvia Velasco; Rodríguez, María José Reina; Gozalo, Mónica; Rodríguez-Lozano, Jesús; Méndez-Legaza, José Manuel; Calvo, Jorge

    Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 06/2022, Letnik: 103, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical performance of STANDARD F COVID-19 Ag FIA (SD Biosensor Inc., Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea), a rapid antigen detection test (RADT) for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2, in patients attended at the Emergency Department with signs or symptoms compatible with COVID-19 that had started in the last 5 days. The clinical performance of the antigen test was compared with RT-PCR, the reference standard. We included 663 specimens from non-repetitive patients. Clinical sensitivity and specificity were 84.0% (95% CI 76.1−89.7) and 99.6% (95% CI 98.5−99.9), respectively. The positive and negative predictive values were 98.1% (95% CI 92.7−99.7) and 96.4% (95% CI 94.4−97.7), respectively. The kappa index agreement between RT-PCR and the RADT was 0.89 (95% CI 0.84−0.93). We concluded that STANDARD F COVID-19 Ag FIA is an excellent first-line RADT method to diagnose symptomatic patients in the emergency department.