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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |