Usefulness of The Rapid Antigen Test in Detecting SARS-CoV-2 for Infection Control in Hospitals.

Jeong Young Lee Sung-Han Kim Jae Lim Jo Young-Ju Lim Sun Kyung Kim Hyejin Yang Soyeon Park Eun Ok Kim Sung Han Kim

Published in: Infection & chemotherapy (2023)

The secondary transmission rate from patients with negative RAT and positive PCR results was low. Our data suggest that RAT may be useful for rapid exclusion of high transmissible cases. However, further evaluation using whole genome sequencing is needed to determine the potential for transmissibility in cases showing a negative RAT but a positive PCR result.

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