Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Synopsis
Effectiveness of Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Outbreak among Horse Racetrack Workers, California, USA
Krishna Surasi
, Kristin J. Cummings, Carl Hanson, Mary Kate Morris, Maria Salas, David Seftel, Liza Ortiz, Ruwan Thilakaratne, Cameron Stainken, and Debra A. Wadford
, Kristin J. Cummings, Carl Hanson, Mary Kate Morris, Maria Salas, David Seftel, Liza Ortiz, Ruwan Thilakaratne, Cameron Stainken, and Debra A. Wadford
Table 1
Characteristics of horse racetrack staff providing paired anterior nasal swab specimens for the BinaxNOW rapid antigen test and real-time reverse transcription PCR for coronavirus disease, California, USA, November–December 2020*
| Characteristic |
rRT-PCR result |
Overall |
|
| Detected |
Not detected |
||
| Total |
127 (100) |
215 (100) |
342 (100) |
| Sex | |||
| F | 26 (20.5) | 62 (28.8) | 88 (25.7) |
| M |
101 (79.5) |
153 (71.2) |
254 (74.3) |
| Median age (range), y |
46 (18–82) |
54 (18–92) |
52 (18–92) |
| Age groups, y | |||
| 18–44 | 57 (44.9) | 75 (34.9) | 132 (38.6) |
| 45–64 | 56 (44.1) | 103 (47.9) | 159 (46.5) |
| >65 |
14 (11.0) |
37 (17.2) |
51 (14.9) |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Hispanic | 99 (78.0) | 113 (52.6) | 212 (62.0) |
| Non-Hispanic | 28 (22.0) | 102 (47.4) | 130 (38.0) |
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. rRT-PCR, real-time reverse transcription PCR.
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