TABLE 2.
Results and clinical sensitivity and specificity of Hotgen based on COVID-19 RT-qPCR result in Brazil and the United Kingdoma
| Result confirmed by RT-qPCR, by location | Result of Hotgen |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. with Ag-RDT result |
Clinical sensitivity (95% CI), totalb |
CT, % (95% CI), total |
Clinical specificity (95% CI), totalc | |||||
| Positive | Negative | Total | ≤20 | ≤25 | ≤33 | |||
| BR, reference center | 91.7% (81.9, 96.4), 60 | 97.1% (85.5, 99.9), 35 | 94.2% (84.4, 98.4), 52 | 91.7% (81.9, 96.4), 60 | 100.0% (98.5, 100.0), 249 | |||
| Positive | 55 | 5 | 60 | |||||
| Negative | 0 | 249 | 249 | |||||
| Total | 55 | 254 | 309 | |||||
| BR, community center | 85.1% (72.3, 92.6), 47 | 100.0% (80.7, 100.0), 16 | 97.4% (86.5, 99.9), 38 | 87.0% (91.2, 100.0), 46 | 100.0% (95.9, 100.0), 137 | |||
| Positive | 40 | 7 | 47 | |||||
| Negative | 0 | 90 | 90 | |||||
| Total | 40 | 97 | 137 | |||||
| UK, community drive-through | 85.1% (74.2, 92.6), 67 | 96.2% (80.3, 99.9), 26 | 83.6% (71.9, 91.8), 61 | 84.84% (73.9, 92.5), 66 | 100.0% (97.9, 100.0), 179 | |||
| Positive | 57 | 10 | 67 | |||||
| Negative | 0 | 179 | 179 | |||||
| Total | 57 | 189 | 246 | |||||
RT-qPCR, real-time quantitative PCR; CT, cycle threshold; CI, confidence interval; Ag-RDT, antigen-based rapid diagnostic test; BR, Brazil.
Overall clinical sensitivity was 88.2% (95% CI, 81.3, 93.3; total number, 174).
Overall clinical specificity was 100.0% (95% CI, 99.1, 100.0; total number, 518).