Ireri Thirion-Romero, Dr Selene Guerrero-Zúñiga, Dr Alexandra Arias-Mendoza, Dr Dora Patricia Cornejo-Juárez, Dr Patricia Meza-Meneses, Dr Darwin Stalin Torres-Erazo, Dr Thierry Hernández-Gilsoul, Dr Arturo Galindo-Fraga, Dr Isabel Villegas-Mota, Dr Jesús Sepúlveda-Delgado, Dr Santiago Ávila-Ríos, Dr Eduardo Becerril-Vargas, Rosario Fernández-Plata, Tit Midori Pérez-Kawabe, Dr Ana Coeto-Cano, Dr Joel Armando Vázquez-Pérez, Dr Simón Kawa-Karasik, Dr Gustavo Reyes-Terán, Dr José Rogelio Pérez-Padilla
BACKGROUND: Point-of-care rapid tests to identify SARS-CoV-2 can have clinical benefits. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in adults visiting emergency services or screening sites of referral hospitals for COVID-19 to validate the diagnostic performance of a rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 (Abbott's Panbio) compared with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Tests were performed by health personnel in a routine situation during a COVID-19 outbreak...
December 2021: International Journal of Infectious Diseases: IJID