A cautionary tale of false-negative nasopharyngeal COVID-19 testing

There remains diagnostic uncertainty regarding the sensitivity of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in detection of SARS-CoV-2 from nasopharyngeal specimens. We present a case where two nasopharyngeal specimens were negative, followed by a positive sputum sample. Serial testing for COV...

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Autores principales: Bullis, Sean S.M., Crothers, Jessica W., Wayne, Shawn, Hale, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32377507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00791

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32377507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00791

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