A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading at a rapid pace throughout the world, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as pandemic on March 11, 2020. We present a case of COVID-19 patient whose reverse transcr...

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Autores principales: Balla, Mamtha, Merugu, Ganesh Prasad, Pokal, Mytri, Gayam, Vijay, Adapa, Sreedhar, Naramala, Srikanth, Konala, Venu Madhav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489507
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr4173
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author Balla, Mamtha
Merugu, Ganesh Prasad
Pokal, Mytri
Gayam, Vijay
Adapa, Sreedhar
Naramala, Srikanth
Konala, Venu Madhav
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Gayam, Vijay
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading at a rapid pace throughout the world, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as pandemic on March 11, 2020. We present a case of COVID-19 patient whose reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) initially was false negative and later turned positive, which will stress the importance of a comprehensive approach while evaluating a patient with a differential of COVID-19. The clinicians should be aware of the sensitivity and specificities of these tests which can have grave implications on the patient and community if the diagnosis is missed just based on the laboratory tests due to the highly contagious nature of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-72395812020-06-01 A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative Balla, Mamtha Merugu, Ganesh Prasad Pokal, Mytri Gayam, Vijay Adapa, Sreedhar Naramala, Srikanth Konala, Venu Madhav J Clin Med Res Case Report Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading at a rapid pace throughout the world, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as pandemic on March 11, 2020. We present a case of COVID-19 patient whose reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) initially was false negative and later turned positive, which will stress the importance of a comprehensive approach while evaluating a patient with a differential of COVID-19. The clinicians should be aware of the sensitivity and specificities of these tests which can have grave implications on the patient and community if the diagnosis is missed just based on the laboratory tests due to the highly contagious nature of the disease. Elmer Press 2020-05 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7239581/ /pubmed/32489507 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr4173 Text en Copyright 2020, Balla et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative
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title_full A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative
title_fullStr A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative
title_full_unstemmed A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative
title_short A Comprehensive Approach Is Vital for Diagnosing COVID-19: A Case of False Negative
title_sort comprehensive approach is vital for diagnosing covid-19: a case of false negative
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489507
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr4173
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