Term:Rapid diagnostic test

Normative

Variants and synonyms

• RDT

Examples

In malaria-endemic areas, patients with fever should be tested for the presence of malaria or other co-infections with validated rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) or thick and thin blood films and treated as appropriate.

Source: WHO-2019-nCoV-clinical-2021.1-eng.pdf

Keyness

>1000

Research

Variants and synonyms

• RDT

Definition/description

Novel Corona virus (COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV) is an emerging global health concern that requires a rapid diagnostic test .

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.19.20025155v1

As an epidemic progresses over time, suspected cases are examined and tested for the infection using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or rapid diagnostic test (RDT).

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025866v2

PCR is accepted as a rapid diagnostic test.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00448/full

Examples

There are a number of rapid diagnostic tests that take less than 15 minutes.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780721691312500051?via%3Dihub

Rapid diagnostic tests would then be available in the future to identify the viral subtype.

Source: https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/BF03391605

Collocations

• rapid diagnostic test identifies
• to require rapid diagnostic test
• to develop rapid diagnostic test
• to perform rapid diagnostic test
• rapid diagnostic test confirms
• reliable rapid diagnostic test

Keyness

>1000

Press

Variants and synonyms

• rapid test
• antigen test
• rapid antigen
• rapid antigen test  

Examples

Spot-checks in health facilities across 24 countries in Africa revealed that in 2020, only 11 per cent of health facilities could conduct Covid-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag RDTs), and just 8 per cent could conduct molecular polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-news-passports-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-lockdown-cases/

Keyness

• rapid diagnostic test: >1000
• rapid test: 211
• antigen test: 397
• rapid antigen: 582
• rapid antigen test: 711

Note

The example of the headword usage provided is the only one occurring in the press corpus.

Comments

The concept is absent from the corpus. Only "(rapid) antigen test" occurs, which is a type of rapid diagnostic test.