Low Sensitivity of Rapid Antigen Tests to Detect Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Before and on the Day of Symptom Onset in Nursing Home Staff and Residents, Germany, January-March 2021

J Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 1;224(11):1987-1989. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab528.

Jennifer K Bender^{1

2}, Emily D Meyer^{3

4}, Mirco Sandfort^{3

4}, Dorothea Matysiak-Klose⁵, Gerhard Bojara⁶, Wiebke Hellenbrand⁵

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany.
² European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germanyand.
⁶ Local Public Health Authority, Osnabrück, Germany.

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