Comparison of a New Gold Immunochromatographic Assay for the Rapid Diagnosis of the Novel Influenza A (H7N9) Virus with Cell Culture and a Real-Time Reverse-Transcription PCR Assay

Table 3

Comparison of RT-PCR and GICA^a for the detection of H7N9 positive samples.

Ct values for RT-PCR	No. of samples	No. of GICA positive	Positivity rate (%)
≤25	10	8	80.00
25–30	30	16	53.33
30–35	28	8	28.57
>35	31	1	3.23

aGICA: gold immunochromatographic assay.