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. 2022 Sep 9;265:127185. doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2022.127185

Table 1.

Characterization of included studies.

DOI Author Year Country Rapid Antigen Test Kit Specimen Types TP TN FP FN SS
10.3390/pathogens10060658 Fiedler 2021 Germany LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 77 72 0 33 182
10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.114024 Krüttgen 2021 Germany Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 53 72 3 22 150
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104991 Abdelhanin 2021 Belgium Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 81 102 0 42 225
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.09.069 Sberna 2021 Italy Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 231 212 26 44 513
10.1007/s40121–021–00510-x Nörz 2021 Germany Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 236 2743 4 156 3139
10.1002/jmv.27459 García‐Salguero 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 30 69 0 8 107
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104909 Moeren 2021 Netherlands LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 54 174 0 20 248
10.1016/j.jiac.2020.11.021 Aoki 2021 Japan Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 22 516 8 2 548
10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114409 Randriamahazo 2022 Madagascar STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 94 106 0 56 256
10.1016/j.ijmmb.2021.07.003 Kanaujia 2021 India Coris bioconcept COVID-19 ag respi-strip test nasopharyngeal swabs 136 293 2 53 484
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.05.082 Mayanskiy 2021 Russia CoviNAg ELISA kit nasopharyngeal swabs 164 72 23 18 277
10.1128/JCM.00896–21 Korenkov 2021 Germany STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 90 1816 2 120 2028
10.3390/vaccines10020198 Lau 2022 Singapore Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 26 288 1 35 350
10.1002/jmv.26830 Ciotti 2021 Italy Coris bioconcept COVID-19 ag respi-strip test nasopharyngeal swabs 12 11 0 27 50
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104838 Bianco 2021 Italy LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 269 561 48 29 907
10.1002/jcla.23745 Peña‐Rodríguez 2021 Mexico STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 79 265 0 25 369
10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104713 Toptan 2021 Germany R-Biopharm oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 45 9 0 13 67
10.1002/jcla.23906 Mueller 2021 Italy Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 12 356 0 35 403
10.3390/v14030468 Salcedo 2022 USA Rapid antigen tests (E25Bio, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA) nasal swabs 51 113 1 8 173
10.1186/s12985–020–01452–5 Chaimayo 2020 Thailand STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal and throat swabs 59 389 5 1 454
10.1186/s12879–021–06716–1 Mitchell 2021 USA Sofia SARS rapid antigen nasal swabs 36 107 0 5 148
10.3390/diagnostics12030650 Polvere 2022 Italy FAST COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test kit nasal swabs 113 383 3 2 501
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.005 Hirotsu 2021 Japan Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 37 989 0 3 1029
10.3390/jcm10102099 Osmanodja 2021 Germany Dräger Antigen Test SARS-CoV-2 nasal swabs 62 308 1 8 379
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.105048 Fourati 2022 France COVID‐VIRO® analysis nasopharyngeal swabs 215 1614 0 77 1906
10.1080/1354750X.2021.1876769 Möckel 2021 Germany Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 85 358 1 29 473
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.02.029 Takeuchi 2021 Japan QuickNavi™-COVID19 Ag nasopharyngeal swabs 91 1081 0 14 1186
10.1007/s00430–021–00706–5 Häuser 2021 Germany LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 68 1632 0 101 1801
10.3389/fped.2021.647274 Jung 2021 France BIOSYNEX Ag-RDT nasopharyngeal swabs 29 271 4 4 308
10.3390/v14010017 Klajmon 2022 Poland Humasis COVID-19 Ag Test kit nasopharyngeal swabs 43 140 2 4 189
10.1093/ajcp/aqab173 Drain 2022 USA LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 23 194 0 5 222
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104789 Landaas 2021 Norway Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal and throat swabs 186 3738 3 64 3991
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.10.027 Thirion-Romero 2021 Mexico Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 256 579 9 216 1060
10.1515/cclm-2021–0569 Hartard 2021 France LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 39 330 2 7 378
10.1128/JCM.01742–21 Almendares 2022 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 157 3116 4 142 3419
10.1515/cclm-2021–0182 Menchinelli 2021 Italy Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 155 397 3 39 594
10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08455 Rahman 2021 Bangladesh STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 261 593 0 46 900
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104941 Escrivá 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 99 331 0 18 448
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104961 Merino-Amador 2021 Spain Clinitest Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test (ClinitestRT) (Siemens, Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany) nasopharyngeal swabs 179 256 2 13 450
10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115591 Onsongo 2022 Kenya NowCheck SARS-CoV-2 Ag test oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 129 845 0 23 997
10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104659 Linares 2020 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 44 195 0 16 255
10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.073 Nalumansi 2021 Uganda STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 63 159 13 27 262
10.3390/ijerph19073826 Cattelan 2022 Italy LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 174 51 3 54 282
10.1016/j.cmi.2020.11.004 Albert 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 43 358 0 11 412
10.1097/INF.0000000000003101 González-Donapetry 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 14 422 0 4 440
10.3201/eid2705.204688 Igloi 2021 Netherlands Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 158 780 4 28 970
10.1002/jmv.26896 Courtellemont 2021 France COVID‐VIRO® analysis nasopharyngeal swabs 117 127 0 4 248
10.1371/journal.pone.0247918 Krüger 2021 Germany Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 92 1001 1 14 1108
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.03.021 Asai 2021 Japan Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay saliva 49 238 4 14 305
10.3390/v13050818 Cento 2021 Italy LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 297 596 17 50 960
10.3389/fpubh.2021.728969 Alqahtani 2021 Bahrain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasal swabs 602 3420 30 131 4183
10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e101 Oh 2021 Korea STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 7 78 0 33 118
10.1371/journal.pone.0259527 Thell 2021 Austria Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 171 325 3 42 541
10.1017/ice.2021.281 Smith 2021 Maryland Sofia SARS rapid antigen nasopharyngeal swabs 180 2645 7 55 2887
10.4269/ajtmh.21–0809 Mungomklang 2021 Thailand STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 35 1024 3 38 1100
10.1017/ice.2021.20 James 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 86 2184 3 66 2339
10.1016/j.cmi.2020.09.057 Diao 2021 China FIC assay nasopharyngeal swabs 152 50 0 49 251
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.07.005 Kiyasu 2021 Japan QuickNavi™-COVID19 Ag nasopharyngeal swabs 151 1746 0 37 1934
10.1016/j.cmi.2021.02.001 Merino 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 325 592 7 34 958
10.3390/v13050796 Kim 2021 Korea GenBody™ COVID-19 Ag test nasopharyngeal swabs 121 198 2 9 330
10.1371/journal.pone.0258394 Jo 2022 Korea STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 34 110 0 26 170
10.3201/eid2711.211449 Surasi 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 55 642 0 72 769
10.3390/diagnostics11112110 Altawalah 2021 Kuwait LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 113 150 0 37 300
10.1111/apm.13189 Jakobsen 2021 Denmark STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasal swabs 32 7008 0 34 7074
10.3390/diagnostics12020447 Yin 2022 Belgium Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 95 396 4 7 502
10.1007/s15010–021–01723–5 Fitoussi 2021 France BIOSYNEX Ag-RDT nasopharyngeal swabs 121 816 3 27 967
10.1371/journal.pone.0260862 Pollreis 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 25 177 0 12 214
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.04.048 Caputo 2021 Italy Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 436 3661 102 67 4266
10.3201/eid2710.210080 Tinker 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 8 1500 0 32 1540
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.105023 Okoye 2022 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 45 3759 2 4 3810
10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114299 Paul 2021 India COVID‐VIRO® analysis nasopharyngeal swabs 72 50 0 26 148
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.10.024 Suzuki 2022 Japan RapidTesta SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs 53 1045 8 21 1127
10.1080/23744235.2021.1914857 Homza 2021 Czech Republic ECOTEST Covid-19 Antigen Rapid Test nasopharyngeal swabs 125 321 9 39 494
10.1002/jmv.27220 Carbonell‐Sahuquillo 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 24 323 0 10 357
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.03.051 Bouassa 2021 France SIENNA™ COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test nasopharyngeal swabs 90 50 0 10 150
10.3390/diagnostics11122300 Sazed 2021 Bangladesh OnSite® COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test nasal swabs 121 245 2 12 380
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.010 Jegerlehner 2021 Switzerland Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 92 1319 2 49 1462
10.1016/j.jinf.2021.02.014 Bulilete 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 100 1220 2 40 1362
10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_3305_20 Gupta 2021 India STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 63 252 1 14 330
10.1007/s41999–021–00584–3 Paap 2021 Netherlands Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 27 363 45 26 461
10.1371/journal.pone.0250886 Moeren 2021 Netherlands BD Veritor System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal and throat swabs 16 334 0 1 351
10.1136/bmj.n1637 Fiñana 2021 UK SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid lateral flow test (LFT) nasopharyngeal and throat swabs 28 5431 3 42 5504
10.1128/Spectrum.00342–21 Chiu 2021 USA LFA-based INDICAID COVID-19 rapid antigen test (INDICAID rapid test) nasal swabs 158 23462 42 30 23692
10.1016/j.ajem.2021.10.022 Turcato 2022 Italy STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 329 3470 32 68 3899
10.3390/diagnostics11122217 Tonen-Wolyec 2021 France BIOSYNEX Ag-RDT nasopharyngeal swabs 20 84 0 2 106
10.1007/s11845–021–02863–1 Kolesova 2021 Italy Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 64 34 0 12 110
10.1007/s11845–021–02776-z Denina 2021 Italy LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 16 160 14 1 191
10.1038/s41598–021–90026–8 Takeuchi 2021 Japan QuickNavi™-COVID19 Ag nasal swabs 37 811 0 14 862
10.1002/jcla.24203 Begum 2022 Bangladesh InTec Rapid SARS‐CoV‐2 Antigen Test nasopharyngeal swabs 101 102 0 11 214
10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104878 Ferté 2021 France Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 33 636 0 19 688
10.1128/JCM.03077–20 Pollock 2021 USA MSD S-PLEX SARS-CoV-2 N assay nasopharyngeal swabs 112 89 1 24 226
10.3390/ijerph18179151 Kyritsi 2021 Greece Rapid Test Ag 2019-nCoV (PROGNOSIS, BIOTECH, Larissa, Greece) nasopharyngeal swabs 141 458 1 24 624
10.1155/2021/3893733 Loconsole 2021 Italy Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 205 677 18 11 911
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.09.008 Leiner 2021 Germany Standard F COVID-19 Ag FIA oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 491 3208 80 297 4076
10.1371/journal.pone.0253321 Nsoga 2021 Switzerland Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device oropharyngeal swabs 136 232 2 32 402
10.3390/diagnostics12040847 Ahmed 2022 Malaysia Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 101 51 2 3 157
10.23749/mdl.v112i5.12097 Visci 2021 Italy LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 78 113 8 10 209
10.1371/journal.pone.0263327 Mori 2022 Japan Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 42 1014 0 14 1070
10.1371/journal.pone.0249710 Sood 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 127 539 9 99 774
10.1093/ofid/ofab059 Masiá 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 118 709 0 77 904
10.1002/jmv.27249 Cassuto 2021 France COVID‐VIRO® analysis nasal swabs 31 202 0 1 234
10.1007/s15010–020–01542–0 Lanser 2020 Austria Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 31 2 0 20 53
10.1128/JCM.00083–21 Pollock 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 227 2003 12 66 2308
10.3390/diagnostics12030710 Lee 2022 Korea STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 58 104 0 13 175
10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115531 Bräunlich 2022 Germany Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 45 2867 21 45 2978
10.1128/Spectrum.01008–21 Siddiqui 2021 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 179 5826 13 43 6061
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.05.063 Leixner 2021 Austria AMP Rapid Test SARS-CoV-2 Ag nasopharyngeal swabs 65 297 1 29 392
10.1128/JCM.00991–21 L′Huillier 2021 Switzerland Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 79 703 0 40 822
10.1016/j.jiph.2021.06.002 Amer 2021 Egypt STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 54 9 5 15 83
10.3390/jcm10071471 Amendola 2021 Italy Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay saliva 22 80 5 20 127
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.04.087 Peña 2021 Chile STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 51 766 3 22 842
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.07.006 Kurihara 2021 Japan QuickChaser® Auto SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs 62 1316 2 21 1401
10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104455 Scohy 2020 Brussels Coris bioconcept COVID-19 ag respi-strip test nasopharyngeal swabs 32 42 0 74 148
10.1016/j.cmi.2020.12.022 Torres 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 38 555 0 41 634
10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.098 Porte 2020 Chile Bioeasy 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Fluorescence Antigen Rapid Test Kit oro-nasopharyngeal swabs 77 45 0 5 127
10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104654 Cerutti 2020 Italy STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 77 221 0 32 330
10.1002/jmv.27378 Treggiari 2021 Italy Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 282 3741 4 140 4167
10.1002/jmv.27412 Villalba 2021 Cuba Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 288 183 19 33 523
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.034 Jian 2022 China COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kit (Eternal Materials, New Taipei City, Taiwan) nasopharyngeal swabs 55 2009 15 17 2096
10.1007/s15010–021–01681-y Krüger 2022 Germany LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 120 611 4 26 761
10.1002/jmv.26855 Veyrenche 2020 France Coris bioconcept COVID-19 ag respi-strip test nasopharyngeal swabs 13 20 0 32 65
10.1007/s10096–021–04346–8 Aranaz-Andrés 2022 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 25 510 1 5 541
10.1016/j.jiac.2021.08.015 Nomoto 2021 Japan Lumipulse® G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 66 19 1 14 100
10.1002/jmv.27033 Holzner 2021 Germany STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test nasopharyngeal swabs 379 1816 8 172 2375
10.1002/jmv.27149 Eleftheriou 2021 Greece Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 42 693 0 9 744
10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100954 Fernandez-Montero 2021 Spain Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay nasopharyngeal swabs 35 2486 8 14 2543
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.043 Leli 2021 Italy LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test nasal swabs 114 596 30 52 792
10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.01.027 Villaverde 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 35 1540 3 42 1620
10.1093/jpids/piab081 Ford 2022 USA BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kit nasal swabs 267 1774 2 67 2110
10.1093/labmed/lmab033 Thakur 2021 India SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid lateral flow test (LFT) nasopharyngeal swabs 29 592 1 55 677
10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114201 Orsi 2021 Italy FREND™ COVID-19 Ag assay nasopharyngeal swabs 56 50 0 4 110
10.3390/healthcare9070868 Ifko 2021 Slovenia NADAL COVID-19 antigen test nasopharyngeal swabs 20 90 12 3 125
10.1128/JCM.00374–21 Lefever 2021 Belgium LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay (Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy), nasopharyngeal swabs 134 210 0 70 414
10.1002/jmv.27505 Roger 2021 France Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 86 4204 33 102 4425
10.37201/req/054.2021 Gras-Valenti 2021 Spain Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device nasopharyngeal swabs 58 398 1 37 494