Impact of antigen test target failure and testing strategies on the transmission of sars-cov-2 variants

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• who: Claudia Del Vecchio from the Analysis of antigen assay performance Between , September , and , October, we conducted a hospital surveillance study at the University Hospital of Padua (Italy) to compare the performance of SARS-Co, rapid antigen tests against RT-PCR molecular swabsDuring the hospital study, subjects representing, % of all patients examined (3290) in the Emergency and Infectious Diseases wards were tested with both antigen (Abbott) and molecular (Simplexau2122 , Direct Kit, Diasorin Cypress, CA, USA) tests (Fig., ). Patients aged, were almost exclusively given the molecular test, in line with the school regulations that required a negative molecular . . .
  

   

  

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