[HTML][HTML] Sars-Cov-2 antigen tests predict infectivity based on viral culture: comparison of antigen, PCR viral load, and viral culture testing on a large sample cohort

JE Kirby, S Riedel, S Dutta, R Arnaout, A Cheng… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Elsevier
viral culture positivity. Adjusting for sample dilution inherent in our study design, sensitivities
of antigen tests were ≥95% for detection of viral culture positive samples with viral loads >…

Community-acquired respiratory viral infections in lung transplant recipients: a single season cohort study

J Gottlieb, TF Schulz, T Welte, T Fuehner… - …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… (compared with antigen detection or viral culture), but results varied for different viruses. In
our study, antigen testing for RSV in lower respiratory tract samples was as sensitive as PCR. …

Respiratory viruses in bronchoalveolar lavage: a hospital-based cohort study in adults

J Garbino, PM Soccal, JD Aubert, T Rochat, P Meylan… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
… of 17 different respiratory viruses detected by reverse … assays identified viral nucleic acid in
91 BAL fluid samples (… BAL specimens (87%) were sent for viral culture. Eleven (2.4%) were …

Viral infections in neonates with suspected late-onset bacterial sepsis—a prospective cohort study

A Kidszun, L Klein, J Winter, I Schmeh… - American Journal of …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
… bacterial sepsis underwent viral testing alongside routine blood culture sampling. Using a
… with a respiratory viral infection (2 × RSV, 4 × picornavirus). Blood culture–proven bacterial …

Viral dynamics in patients with monkeypox infection: a prospective cohort study in Spain

C Suñer, M Ubals, EJ Tarín-Vicente… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
… Most positive samples on viral culture were collected before day 15 of illness. Although …
viral culture, and this sample was from a skin lesion (figure 3C). Based on the viral load culture

[HTML][HTML] Viral dynamics of Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants with implications for timing of release from isolation: a longitudinal cohort study

TC Bouton, J Atarere, J Turcinovic, S Seitz, C Sher-Jan… - MedRxiv, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… followed by a more gradual viral decline. Similarly, adjusting the viral culture results from days
since … by our daily sampling and culture data, it is not clear how well culture positivity in the …

Outcomes in culture positive and culture negative ascitic fluid infection in patients with viral cirrhosis: cohort study

L Kamani, K Mumtaz, US Ahmed, AW Ali, W Jafri - BMC gastroenterology, 2008 - Springer
… We studied the outcome in the two variants of AFI in a large cohort of patients with viral
of blood culture bottles and the volume of the blood sample drawn affect the yield of culture. …

Comparison of home antigen testing with RT-PCR and viral culture during the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection

VT Chu, NG Schwartz, MAP Donnelly… - JAMA internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
… of this cohort study of home antigen tests suggest that sensitivity for SARS-CoV-2 was moderate
compared with RT-PCR and high compared with viral culture. … a convenience sample of …

Post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes precipitated by viral and non-viral pathogens: prospective cohort study

I Hickie, T Davenport, D Wakefield, U Vollmer-Conna… - Bmj, 2006 - bmj.com
… anti-Epstein-Barr virus viral capsid antigen or detection of IgM anti-viral capsid antigen and
low avidity IgG anti-viral capsid antigen in the baseline sample.21 We confirmed diagnoses …

… of viral infectiousness and correlation with symptoms and diagnostic testing in non-hospitalized adults during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection: A longitudinal cohort study

PK Drain, RR Dalmat, L Hao, MJ Bemer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
… We prepared two viral growth assays per sample using Vero … RT-PCR and N antigen assay
results correlated with viral culture … -2 viral load (Ct<25), N antigen positivity, and viral culture