Performance of the Quidel Sofia rapid influenza diagnostic test during the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 influenza seasons
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Rapid Molecular Detection and Differentiation of Influenza Viruses A and B
Published on: January 30, 2017
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Peter E Kammerer1, Jennifer M Radin1, Anthony W Hawksworth1
1Operational Infectious Diseases Department, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA, USA.
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
|February 28, 2016
Abstract:
The Quidel Sofia Influenza A+B Fluorescent Immunoassay was used to test nasal swab specimens from patients with influenza-like illness at US-Mexico border-area clinics in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 influenza seasons. Compared with real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, the overall sensitivities and specificities were 83% and 81%, and 62% and 93%, respectively.

