How to Use antigen in a Sentence

antigen

noun

• For rapid antigen tests, serial testing is the name of the game.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• Each home in the U.S. has until Friday, Sept. 2 to order the free rapid antigen test.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2022
• The feds will send eight rapid antigen tests to any address in the country that requests them.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2022
• Either an antigen test or a PCR test could be used at this point.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Rapid antigen tests are now one of the hottest commodities in town after they were all but sold out at stores.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• The letters stand for different proteins (antigens) in the blood.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 6 May 2023
• Read more about how and where to get rapid antigen or PCR tests after the federal test kits program halts on Sept. 2.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2022
• The other five members of the K-pop group have taken self-tests and rapid antigen tests; all have come back negative.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 21 July 2022
• Over the decades, researchers have discovered many, many more antigens.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• Those rapid antigen tests, at the end of illness are pretty good and go along with contagiousness.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
• These tests might be antigen or molecular (e.g., PCR) tests.
  — Allison Duncan, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
• Harris took a rapid antigen test Tuesday morning after going to work at the White House, Allen said.
  — Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• This means that an antigen test could be negative even if the person being tested has the disease.
  — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• The agency recommends that people perform a second antigen test a few days after the first one, which is why the kits are sold as two-packs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• The city is also starting to roll out rapid antigen tests to a few districts, including Jing’an district.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• For decades, it has been known that prostate specific antigen ‒ or PSA ‒ tests are a flawed way to diagnose prostate cancer.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Guests over the age of six will need to show a negative rapid antigen test within 48 hours, or a negative PCR test within 72 hours.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2022
• But many of us were still out in the world, pushing toward the future, booking flights and antigen tests in distant cities, aware that there were no guarantees.
  — Beth Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the rest of the case count has been rendered meaningless too, as cities roll back mass testing and allow people to use antigen tests and isolate at home.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• But even without symptoms, people can test positive on a rapid antigen test and be a risk to others.
  — Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022
• Your physician can give you a rapid antigen test, or simple throat swab test that garners results in minutes.
  — Lashieka Hunter, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022
• Rapid antigen tests detect tiny, microscopic amounts of protein from the virus.
  — Dejania Oliver, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• Taking a look at a person’s genetic code, then, can predict which antigens are present.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• The participants had to have first shown symptoms within the past week and to have tested positive in a rapid antigen assay.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
• His infection was detected first with an antigen test, the same type that many Americans use at home.
  — Carla K. Johnson, ajc, 21 July 2022
• The most common way is to take a blood sample to look for Coccidioides antibodies or antigens.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
• Americans even have the option of ordering free antigen tests that will be shipped directly to their home.
  — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• These symptoms can look like bad allergies or the flu, so experts say use an antigen test after symptoms start.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 16 May 2022
• If your name comes up as the top match, the OPO confirms with your physician that the donor’s blood type, tissue antigens and other details are compatible with yours.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The results of many home antigen tests are not reported to public health departments and thus do not appear in public counts.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024