{"id":5705,"date":"2024-05-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:42:54","slug":"international-study-highlights-best-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/international-study-highlights-best-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"International study highlights best RATs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking study by James Cook University researchers has produced damning findings on several COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) available in Australia and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0039914024005265\" rel=\"noopener\">new joint study<\/a> by JCU and National Research Council Canada analysed 16&nbsp;RATs approved by Australia\u2019s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and 10 by Health Canada, using a JCU-developed COVID-19 protein and its Canadian counterpart as reference materials.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total 26&nbsp;RATs compared, only six were found to be effective at detecting the lowest concentration of the COVID-19 reference proteins in the dilution series used for benchmarking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking study by James Cook University researchers has produced damning findings on several COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) available in Australia and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0039914024005265\" rel=\"noopener\">new joint study<\/a> by JCU and National Research Council Canada analysed 16&nbsp;RATs approved by Australia\u2019s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and 10 by Health Canada, using a JCU-developed COVID-19 protein and its Canadian counterpart as reference materials.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total 26&nbsp;RATs compared, only six were found to be effective at detecting the lowest concentration of the COVID-19 reference proteins in the dilution series used for benchmarking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/international-study-highlights-best-rats\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International study highlights best RATs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,96,18,77,728,1102,1103,1104,22,8,14],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-influenza-a","tag-influenza-b","tag-james-cook-university","tag-national-research-council-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}