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Solutions for COVID-19 Antigen Saliva Tests - Medical / Health Care
Rapid and efficient screening tools are an essential step in the global fight against COVID-19 and key to ensuring a safe return to daily life and social interactions. Today, nucleotide-based testing (RT-PCR) is the gold standard for diagnosing the disease. But, while sensitive, these tests are limited by long turnaround times, high costs and a typically invasive and uncomfortable nature of sampling.
Abionic’s COVID-19 saliva test allows for ultra-fast screening, using the abioSCOPE device to ensure lab quality results at the point-of-care. The device’s intuitive design combined with single-use kits enables COVID-19 testing to be done in a secure manner, reducing the need for trained personnel and personal protective equipment (PPE) 1. The user-friendly saliva swab ensures a discreet and non-invasive sample collection directly from the mouth, followed by 4 simple steps to read the capsule immediately.
Results are immediately sent to the patient in an electronic COVID-19 patient report, linked to a QR code.
The IVD CAPSULE COVID-19 test on the abioSCOPE device measures the presence of a specific SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen in saliva. The SARS-CoV-2 virus contains 4 structural antigens or proteins:
- Spike glycoprotein (S)
- Envelope protein (E)
- Membrane protein (M)
- Nucleoprotein (N)
The N protein is the package encompassing the viral RNA. It is abundantly expressed during COVID-19 infection, and if found in saliva, indicates an ongoing infection.The N protein is detected by the IVD CAPSULE COVID-19 antigen test on the abioSCOPE®, and is recognized by many health authorities as being the most valuable antigen to be targeted by rapid COVID-19 antigen tests1.