Table 2.
Clinical sensitivity of the VIASURE qRT-PCR Kit for detection of SARS-CoV-2 as determined in comparative analysis in the University of Birmingham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Two commercial assays were used for comparison, the Altona qRT-PCR assay (n = 94) and the Abbott m2000 qRT-PCR assay (n = 26).
| Queen Elizabeth Hospital RT-PCRs |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altona Assay |
Abbott Assay |
||||||
| Positive | Negative | Total | Positive | Negative | Total | ||
| University of Birmingham VIASURE qRT-PCR | Positive | 48 | 1 | 49 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Negative | 0 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 16 | 16 | |
| Indeterminate | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 48 | 46 | 94 | 10 | 16 | 26 | |