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Correspondence on “The Low Yield of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing in Screening Asymptomatic Hospital Visitors in Low-incidence Settings”

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By Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, Indumathi Venkatachalam, Limin Wijaya
| International Journal of Infectious Disease Verified
Keywords SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 antigen test point-of-care testing outbreak visitors To the Editor, We note the interest by Boddeti et. al. (Boddeti et al., 2022) in our article that reported the use of rapid-antigen detection (RAD) in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors for SARS-CoV-2 at the point-of-entry during the COVID-19 pandemic (Wee et al., 2022). During the study period 0.3% (31/9679) of admitted inpatients tested positive for COVID-19.
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Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings

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By Edwin Philip Conceicao, Indumathi Venkatachalam, Limin Wijaya, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim
| International Journal of Infectious Disease Verified
Highlights • SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing for asymptomatic hospital visitors is low-yield. • COVID-19 cases were identified amongst <0.01% of hospital visitors over 2 months. • No evidence of nosocomial transmission from hospital visitors was identified.
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