Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Clin Lab Med. 2022 Jun;42(2):203-222. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2022.03.001. Epub 2022 Mar 4.
Though rapid antigen tests have historically problematic performance characteristics for the diagnosis of respiratory viral infections such as influenza, they have attained an unprecedented level of use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ease of use and scalability of rapid antigen tests has facilitated a democratization and scale of testing beyond anything reasonably achievable by traditional laboratory-based testing. In this chapter, we discuss the performance characteristics of rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection and their application to non-traditional uses beyond clinical diagnostic testing.
虽然快速抗原检测在诊断流感等呼吸道病毒感染方面的性能特征历来存在问题，但在 COVID-19 大流行的背景下，它们的使用达到了前所未有的水平。快速抗原检测的易用性和可扩展性促进了检测的民主化和规模化，这是传统基于实验室的检测难以实现的。在本章中，我们讨论了快速抗原检测用于 SARS-CoV-2 检测的性能特征及其在临床诊断检测以外的非传统用途中的应用。
