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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 10, Pages 4812-4814Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.10.4812-4814.2004
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A new commercial rapid 10-min one-step immunochromatography (IC) test, SAS RSV test, was compared to another IC test, Directigen EZ RSV, employing RT-PCR as the gold standard for detecting respiratory syncytial virus. Of 102 clinical samples, 79 were positive by RT-PCR, 66 (82.5%) were positive with the SAS RSV test, and 55 (69.6%) were positive with Directigen EZ RSV. The specificity of the new test was 91.3% (21 of 23), similar to that of Directigen EZ RSV (100% [23 of 23]). This test performs well enough to be used for patient care.
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