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. 2021 Aug 3;93(12):6462–6464. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27236

Table 1.

Sensitivities and specificities of nine rapid antigen testing assays for SARS‐CoV‐2 detection

Rapid antigen tests Patient information/disease status Sample size Sensitivity Specificity Reference
COVID‐VIRO® Symptomatic/asymptomatic 248 96.7% 100% [3]

Abbott Panbio™ COVID‐19 Ag Rapid Test

COVID‐19 Ag ECO Test

Symptomatic

44

68

100%

82.0%

94.0%

98.0%

[4]

Abbott Panbio™ COVID‐19 Ag Rapid Test

BioSpeedia COVID19 Speed‐Antigen Test

Symptomatic/presymptomatic/asymptomatic 401

75.0%

65.5%

NA

100%

[5]
Abbott Panbio™ COVID‐19 Ag Rapid Test Children: Symptomatic/asymptomatic 744 82.4% 100% [6]

CoV‐Ag Rapid Test Cassette (BioRad)

GSD NovaGen COVID‐19 Ag Rapid Test (NovaTec)

Aegle CoV‐Ag Rapid Test Cassette (LumiraDx)

NA 199

62.7%

61.9%

64.0%

100%

85.7%

100%

[7]
AgPOCT (Roche)

Symptomatic/asymptomatic

(symptomatic)

(asymptomatic)

2375

(1539)

(836)

68.9%

(69.5%)

(62.0%)

99.6%

(99.5%)

(97.6%)

[8]
COVID‐19 Ag Respi‐Strip (Coris BioConcept) NA 50 30.8% 100% [9]
Abbott Panbio™ COVID‐19 Ag Rapid Test a Adult/children; Symptomatic/presymptomatic/asymptomatic 1145 76.3% a NA This study

Abbreviations: COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; SARS‐CoV‐2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

a

The sensitivity was recalculated based on the data from References [5] and [6].