{"id":2015,"date":"2021-08-13T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2021-08-13T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:25:17","slug":"antigen-and-molecular-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Antigen and Molecular Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Diagnostic tests are used to detect current, active infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Diagnostic tests can be\u00a0antigen based (\u201crapid antigen\u201d tests), which look for protein markers on the outside of the virus, or they can be molecular based (including PCR, LAMP, CRISPR), which look for viral genomic material specific to SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0Molecular based tests that amplify genetic material are also called nucleic acid amplification tests (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/glossary.html#NAAT\">NAAT<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>More about antigen and molecular tests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#molecular-tests-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How do antigen and molecular tests work?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#molecular-tests-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is neede<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#perform-molecular-test\">d to perform an antigen or molecular test?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#Molecular-Tests-Detect-SARS-CoV-2\">How do molecular tests detect SARS-CoV-2?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#common-types-of-molecular-tests\">Common types of antigen and molecular tests being developed for SARS-CoV-2<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#molecular-tests-on-market\">What kind of antigen and molecular tests are on the market? What\u2019s the difference between them?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html#Current-molecular-tests\">Current antigen and molecular tests with FDA EUA Status<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/covid-19TestingToolkit\/testing-basics\/types-of-COVID-19-tests\/antigen-and-molecular-tests.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnostic tests are used to detect current, active infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Diagnostic tests can be\u00a0antigen based (\u201crapid antigen\u201d tests), which look for protein markers on the outside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,683,101,772,119,276,381,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antigen","category-antigen-test","category-covid-19","category-crispr","category-diagnostics-covid-19","category-lamp","category-nucleic-acid-amp-test","category-qrt-pcr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}