Swine Flu Rapid Test Not Always Accurate
August 7th, 2009 by Nina Thompson, ARNP
Three major, commercially available, rapid test kits for the swine flu accurately identified only 40% to 69% of 45 clinical specimens known to contain the H1N1 flu strain, according to the CDC. However, there was an 89% accuracy if a tested specimen had a high level of the virus. But as the level of virus in the specimens fell, the accuracy of [...]
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