sd biosensor standard q test kit  (SD Biosensor)

Journal: PLOS ONE

Article Title: Evaluation of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing in Lesotho and Zambia

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280105

Figure Lengend Snippet: ‘Ease of use’ assessment self-completed questionnaire on self-testing in Zambia (N = 1125).

Article Snippet: Individuals who were eligible (≥18 years, residing in the community and able to give consent, COVID-19 contact or symptomatic and agreed to participate in the study) were provided with a self-test kit, SD Biosensor STANDARD Q COVID-19 Ag Test, which included the adapted IFU, the swab, and the test device.

Techniques: Extraction

Journal: Microbiology Spectrum

Article Title: Direct Nasal Swab for Rapid Test and Saliva as an Alternative Biological Sample for RT-PCR in COVID-19 Diagnosis

doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01998-22

Figure Lengend Snippet: Scatter diagram showing the distribution of the C T values of the infected patients during the first and second waves of COVID-19. The RT-PCR-positive samples that were missed by RDT are shown by the red triangles. In the first wave, only the SD Biosensor kit was used, and both SD Biosensor and CareStart kits were used during the second wave.

Article Snippet: In the first session of the study, naso-oropharyngeal swab samples were collected from the enrolled participants in 3 mL of VTM by expert health care professionals, and samples were later assessed on a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) with the SD Biosensor Standard Q COVID-19 Ag kit within 2 h and RT-PCR within 24 h of sample collection.

Techniques: Infection, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction