Accuracy of Rapid Antigen vs Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in College Athletes During Prevalence of the Omicron Variant

Jessica Tsao; Andrea L Kussman; Cristina Costales; Benjamin A Pinsky; Geoffrey D Abrams; Calvin E Hwang

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17234

Accuracy of Rapid Antigen vs Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in College Athletes During Prevalence of the Omicron Variant

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jun 1;5(6):e2217234. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17234.

Authors

Jessica Tsao¹, Andrea L Kussman¹, Cristina Costales², Benjamin A Pinsky², Geoffrey D Abrams¹, Calvin E Hwang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
² Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Abstract

This case series evaluates the performance of rapid antigen tests in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection in college athletes during prevalence of a dominant Omicron variant.

MeSH terms

Athletes
COVID-19* / diagnosis
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Humans
Prevalence
RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2 / genetics

Substances

RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase

Supplementary concepts

SARS-CoV-2 variants