• Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. · Sep 2015

    Multicenter Study Comparative Study

    Multicenter evaluation of BD Veritor System and RSV K-SeT for rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus in a diagnostic laboratory setting.

    • Stijn Jonckheere, Charlotte Verfaillie, An Boel, Kristien Van Vaerenbergh, Elke Vanlaere, Anne Vankeerberghen, and Hans De Beenhouwer.
    • Clinical Laboratory of Microbiology, OLVZ Aalst, Moorselbaan 164, 9300 Aalst, Belgium.
    • Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Sep 1; 83 (1): 37-40.

    AbstractThe recently introduced BD Veritor System RSV laboratory kit (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD, USA) with automatic reading was evaluated and compared with the RSV K-SeT (Coris BioConcept, Gembloux, Belgium) for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) using 248 nasopharyngeal aspirates of children younger than 6 years old with respiratory tract infection. Compared to reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction as gold standard, both tests had an identical sensitivity of 78.1% and a specificity of 96.8% and 95.8% for the BD Veritor System and RSV K-SeT, respectively. Both antigen tests can be used to reliably confirm RSV in young children. However, a negative result does not definitively exclude the presence of RSV.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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