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Generation, Amplification, and Titration of Recombinant Respiratory Syncytial Viruses
Published on: April 4, 2019
Comparison of Cepheid's analyte-specific reagents with BD directigen for detection of respiratory syncytial virus
Jennifer S Goodrich1, Melissa B Miller
1University of North Carolina Hospitals, Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratory, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 22, 2006
Abstract:
For detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the BD Directigen RSV rapid antigen assay was compared to Cepheid's real-time reverse transcriptase PCR RSV analyte-specific reagents. The Directigen RSV assay resulted in a 23% false-negative rate, using PCR and chart review as the gold standard, indicating that rapid RSV PCR results would be advantageous.

