Antigen vs RT-PCR Tests for Screening Quarantined Students in Florida During the COVID-19 Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Surge

Eric J Nelson; Sarah Lindley McKune; Kathleen A Ryan; Jerne Shapiro; Adrienne H Mott-Young; Paul D Myers; J Glenn Morris Jr

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.0080

Antigen vs RT-PCR Tests for Screening Quarantined Students in Florida During the COVID-19 Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Surge

JAMA Pediatr. 2022 May 1;176(5):525-526. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.0080.

Authors

Eric J Nelson^{1

2

3}, Sarah Lindley McKune², Kathleen A Ryan¹, Jerne Shapiro⁴, Adrienne H Mott-Young¹, Paul D Myers⁵, J Glenn Morris Jr³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.
² Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville.
³ Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville.
⁵ Florida Department of Health in Alachua, Gainesville.

Abstract

This diagnostic/prognostic study compares the results of antigen vs real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction tests among quarantined students 5 days after exposure to SARS-CoV-2 during the surge of Delta variant cases in the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / diagnosis
Florida / epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Students

Supplementary concepts

SARS-CoV-2 variants