Retrospective and Prospective Verification of the Cepheid Xpert Influenza Virus Assay
- 1 September 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (9) , 3368-3369
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01162-11
Abstract
We performed a retrospective ( n = 121) and prospective ( n = 305) verification of the Cepheid Xpert Flu assay to determine its performance characteristics. The overall sensitivity and specificity were 93% and 100%, respectively. Nasopharyngeal specimen sensitivities were 100% for seasonal influenza A/H1 virus and influenza A/H3 virus, 90% for influenza A/2009/H1N1 virus, and 95% for influenza B virus.Keywords
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