Giuseppe
Emeritus
Rapid Antigen Test for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus (Emerg Infect Dis., letter, extract, edited)
[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full PDF Document (LINK). Extract, edited.]
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.091574
Suggested citation for this article: Diederen BMW, Veenendaal D, Jansen R, Herpers BH, Ligtvoet EEJ, IJzerman EPF. Rapid antigen test for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 May; [Epub ahead of print]
Rapid Antigen Test for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus
To the Editor:
Drexler et al. recently compared the sensitivity of the BinaxNOW Influenza A & B Rapid Test (BinaxNOW; Inverness Medical, Cologne, Germany) with that of a real-time reverse transcription?PCR (RT-PCR) assay specific for influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus (1). Of 1,838 clinical specimens tested, 221 were confirmed as positive for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 by RT-PCR. When 144 of these 221 specimens were evaluated by using the BinaxNOW, results were positive for only 16 (11%).
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[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full PDF Document (LINK). Extract, edited.]
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.091574
Suggested citation for this article: Diederen BMW, Veenendaal D, Jansen R, Herpers BH, Ligtvoet EEJ, IJzerman EPF. Rapid antigen test for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 May; [Epub ahead of print]
Rapid Antigen Test for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus
To the Editor:
Drexler et al. recently compared the sensitivity of the BinaxNOW Influenza A & B Rapid Test (BinaxNOW; Inverness Medical, Cologne, Germany) with that of a real-time reverse transcription?PCR (RT-PCR) assay specific for influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus (1). Of 1,838 clinical specimens tested, 221 were confirmed as positive for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 by RT-PCR. When 144 of these 221 specimens were evaluated by using the BinaxNOW, results were positive for only 16 (11%).
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