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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis
. 2022 Jan 28;9(3)
fac022.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac022. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Detection of the Omicron Variant Virus With the Abbott BinaxNow SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Assay
James Regan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], James P Flynn[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Manish C Choudhary[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Rockib Uddin[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jacob Lemieux[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Julie Boucau[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Roby P Bhattacharyya[SUP] 2 3 5 [/SUP], Amy K Barczak[SUP] 2 3 4 [/SUP], Jonathan Z Li[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Mark J Siedner[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
We assessed the ability of the BinaxNow rapid test to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen from 4 individuals with Omicron and Delta infections. We performed serial dilutions of nasal swab samples, and specimens with concentrations of ≥100000 copies/swab were positive, demonstrating that the BinaxNow test is able to detect the Omicron variant.
Keywords: BinaxNow; SARS-CoV-2; diagnostic test; rapid antigen; viral load.
. 2022 Jan 28;9(3)
fac022.doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac022. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Detection of the Omicron Variant Virus With the Abbott BinaxNow SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Assay
James Regan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], James P Flynn[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Manish C Choudhary[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Rockib Uddin[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jacob Lemieux[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Julie Boucau[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Roby P Bhattacharyya[SUP] 2 3 5 [/SUP], Amy K Barczak[SUP] 2 3 4 [/SUP], Jonathan Z Li[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Mark J Siedner[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35169591
- PMCID: PMC8842316
- DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac022
Abstract
We assessed the ability of the BinaxNow rapid test to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen from 4 individuals with Omicron and Delta infections. We performed serial dilutions of nasal swab samples, and specimens with concentrations of ≥100000 copies/swab were positive, demonstrating that the BinaxNow test is able to detect the Omicron variant.
Keywords: BinaxNow; SARS-CoV-2; diagnostic test; rapid antigen; viral load.