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S Demuth1, S Damaschek1, O Schildgen1
1Kliniken der Stadt Köln, Institut für Pathologie, Klinikum der Privaten Universität Witten Herdecke mit Sitz in Köln, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, D-51109, Cologne, Germany.
New Microbes and New Infections
|July 19, 2021
Abstract:
SARS-CoV-2-antigen-testing has been proposed as a 'game-changing' tool to interrupt infection chains. Thereby European strategies focused on two pillars, namely rapid antigen tests conducted by health care experts and/or trained personal and so-called self-tests. Here, evidence is provided that these assays have a weak performance even under laboratory conditions.
