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DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 105, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2022.115860
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COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; RT-qPCR; rapid nucleic acid detection; analytical performance
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The study evaluated the analytical performance of three COVID-19 detection assays: Coyote assay, BioGerm assay, and DaAn assay. The results showed high consistency among these assays, providing a reference for COVID-19 diagnosis.
Diagnostic accuracy of COVID-19 varies among different assays. In this study, the analytical performance of 1 rapid nucleic acid detection assay (Coyote assay) and 2 routine RT-qPCR assays (BioGerm assay and DaAn assay) was evaluated, using 1196 clinical samples. Disagreement in the results of 2 paired targets occurred in all 3 assays. The Coyote assay failed to detect 15 samples, and the DaAn assay failed to detect 5 samples. The Cohen's kappa coefficient was 0.970 between the BioGerm and DaAn assays, 0.907 between the Coyote and BioGerm assays, and 0.936 between the Coyote and DaAn assays. The positive percent agreement, and negative percent agreement of the Coyote assay were 84.04%, and 100%, respectively. Our study revealed that the results of the Coyote, BioGerm, and DaAn assays were highly consistent, which provided reference for the application of these assays for diagnosis of COVID-19. (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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