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Why Daily SARS-CoV-2 Nasal Rapid Antigen Testing Poorly Detects Infected and Infectious Individuals

2022-07-15

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> In a recent household-transmission study of SARS-CoV-2, we found extreme differences in SARS-CoV-2 viral loads among paired saliva, anterior-nares swab (ANS) and oropharyngeal swab specimens collected from the same timepoint. We hypothesized these differences may hinder low-analytical-sensitivity assays (including antigen rapid diagnostic tests, Ag-RDTs) using a single specime...

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Literature Corpus work: 293e30c3-2168-5c2c-bec0-da97721b7e31
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.13.22277513

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