Multicenter Evaluation of QIAstat-Dx Respiratory Panel V2 for Detection of Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens
Stefan A. Boers, Willem J. G. Melchers, Cas J. A. Peters, Marga Toonen, M. McHugh, Kate Templeton, Eric C. J. Claas
Abstract
QIAstat-Dx Respiratory Panel V2 (RP) is a novel molecular-method-based syndromic test for the simultaneous and rapid (∼70-min) detection of 18 viral and 3 bacterial pathogens causing respiratory infections. This report describes the first multicenter retrospective comparison of the performance of the QIAstat-Dx RP assay to the established ePlex Respiratory Pathogen Panel (RPP) assay, for which we used 287 respiratory samples from patients suspected with respiratory infections. The QIAstat-Dx RP assay detected 312 (92%) of the 338 respiratory targets that were detected by the ePlex RPP assay.
Topics & Concepts
Respiratory systemMulticenter studyRespiratory diseaseRespiratory tract infectionsMedicineMicrobiologyVirologyBiologyInternal medicineLungRandomized controlled trialRespiratory viral infections researchPneumonia and Respiratory InfectionsInfluenza Virus Research Studies