Comparison of Allplex ™ SARS-CoV-2 Assay, Easy SARS-CoV-2 WE and Lumipulse quantitative SARS-CoV-2 antigen test performance using automated systems for the diagnosis of COVID-19.

As COVID-19 continues to strain public health systems and vaccination programmes race against new variants that might be more transmissible or capable of evading immune responses, the urgent need for simple, accessible, and frequent testing remains [Tan SH et al 2021]. Despite molecular assays are considered the gold standard for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis, antigen detection assays currently deserve great attention, since they are intrinsically less laborious, require a shorter time to results and have the potential to satisfy the pressing demand for early SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis, thus allowing to timely adopt prevention measures against the infection spread [Porte L et al 2020; Lambert-Niclot S et al 2020; Kobayashi R et al 2021].
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research