Comparative Study of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test and COVID-19 RT Pcr Test in Department of Pathology Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar

Abstract

On 31 December 2019 the china health authority alerted the world health organization (WHO) about several cases of pneumonia of an unknown cause in Wuhan city in china since the first case in December 8, 2019 had been reported, on January 7, a new virus abbreviated as 2019 novel corona virus by World Health Organization (WHO). Suffering from covid-19 mostly patient commonly present fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, anosmia, nausea and diarrhea etc among reported symptoms 70% patient suffer from fever, cough shortness of breath while 30% experience myalgia and headache. A total of 185 patients were included in the study, out of which 77 were male and 108 were female. The overall population were divided into four different age groups i.e. 1 to 20 years, 20 to 40 years, 40 to 60 years and 60 to 80 years. 16 patients were included in the age group of 1 to 20 years, 121 patients were included in the age group of 20 to 40 years, 31 patients were included in the age group of 40 to 60 years and 17 patients were included in the age group of 60 to 80 years and. A total of 185 patients were evaluated for Presence of S gene out of which 42.7% were positive and 57.2% were negative. A total of 185 patients were evaluated for Presence of S gene out of which 42.7% were positive and 57.2% were negative. A total of 185 patients were evaluated for Covid-19 infection in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, out of which 44.9% were positive and 55.1% were negative. A total of 185 patients were evaluated for Rapid Antigen test out of which 39.5% were positive and 60.5% were negative. A total of 185 patients were evaluated for Covid-19 PCR Test out of which 42.7% were positive and 57.3% were negative. The results of patients were screened for different symptoms associated with Covid-19 infection. Among Covid-19 infected patient 34.1% showed cough symptom, 20.5% had shortness of breath, 36.3% experienced fever and 34.1% experienced loss of smell.