• Sang Min Oh, Hyeonju Jeong, Euijin Chang, Pyoeng Gyun Choe, Chang Kyung Kang, Wan Beom Park, Taek Soo Kim, Woon Yong Kwon, Myoung Don Oh, and Nam Joong Kim.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2021 Apr 12; 36 (14): e101.

AbstractWe evaluated the Standard Q COVID-19 Ag test for the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) compared to the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. We applied both tests to patients who were about to be hospitalized, had visited an emergency room, or had been admitted due to COVID-19 confirmed by RT-PCR. Two nasopharyngeal swabs were obtained; one was tested by RT-PCR and the other by the Standard Q COVID-19 Ag test. A total of 118 pairs of tests from 98 patients were performed between January 5 and 11, 2021. The overall sensitivity and specificity for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) for the Standard Q COVID-19 Ag test compared to RT-PCR were 17.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.8-32.0%) and 100% (95% CI, 95.3-100.0%). Analysis of the results using RT-PCR cycle thresholds of ≤ 30 or ≤ 25 increased the sensitivity to 26.9% (95% CI, 13.7-46.1%), and 41.1% (95% CI, 21.6-64.0%), respectively.© 2021 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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