Need for a high-specificity test for confirming weakly positive result in an immunochromatographic SARS-CoV-2-specific antigen test: A case report

• Takuya Tanimoto,
• Mirai Matsumura,
• Shinpei Tada,
• Suguru Fujita,
• Sayaka Ueno,
• Kosuke Hamai,
• Takuji Omoto,
• Hiroyuki Maeda,
• Takashi Nishisaka,
• Nobuhisa Ishikawa

Affiliations

Takuya Tanimoto

Corresponding author. Fax: +81 82 253 8274.; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Mirai Matsumura

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Shinpei Tada

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Suguru Fujita

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Sayaka Ueno

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Kosuke Hamai

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Takuji Omoto

Department of Rheumatology, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Hiroyuki Maeda

Department of Rheumatology, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Takashi Nishisaka

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan

Nobuhisa Ishikawa

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, 1-5-54 Ujina-Kanda, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8530, Japan