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SUBMITTER: Antonara S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8324421 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antonara Stella S Ozbolt Patrick P Landon Lorie L Fatica Lisa L Pleasant Tamra T Swickard Juanita J Drury Andrew A Wongchaowart Nicholas N Cradic Kendall W KW
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 20210731 1
Identification of asymptomatic patients is necessary to control the COVID-19 pandemic and testing is one of the measures to detect this population. We evaluated the clinical correlation of the DiaSorin Molecular Simplexa COVID-19 Direct (DiaSorin Molecular) and Roche Cobas 6800 SARS-CoV-2 (Roche) assays using 253 oropharyngeal (OP) swab specimens collected from asymptomatic patients. Agreement between DiaSorin Molecular and Roche was 97% (95% CI, 0.94 to 0.99), with a κ statistic of 0.90 (95% CI ...[more]