Edupath Newsletter September 2020 – The Role of Antibody Testing in the Management and Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)
Because the sensitivity of laboratory-based serology tests and rapid point-of-care tests are too low within the first 14 days after SARS-CoV-2 infection (causing COVID-19), reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the current gold standard of diagnosis of an acute infection.