How to Use antigen in a Sentence

antigen

noun
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  • In addition to the major blood types, there are hundreds of antigens for red blood cells, some of which are unique to racial and ethnic groups.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • According to the website, these are rapid antigen tests and are not PCR tests.
    — Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Visitors will be provided two free at-home rapid antigen tests upon arrival.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The macrophage eats the virus, creating antigens that kick-start T-cells, which then activate B-cells to help white blood cells attack the cold virus.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • Staff and students will be required to notify the district of any positive antigen test results before returning to school.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • All travelers still need to provide negative pre-departure tests and undertake two rapid-antigen tests within the first week of arrival.
    — Matthew Brockett, Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The prostate specific antigen test is a blood test that identifies an enzyme made by the prostate, which is secreted into semen but also normally found in small amounts in the blood.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • 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 | Lgore@al.com, 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
  • The agency cites its own study that looked at the number of antigens given to children during their first two years of life.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
  • 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
  • And antigens are also sneaky, sometimes tucking away into parts of the brain that aren’t easy to access.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Those rapid antigen tests, at the end of illness are pretty good and go along with contagiousness.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • In screening, his score in a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test had been climbing for a couple of years.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
  • 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

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