Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria

In the world scenario, the advent of COVID-19 has halted every aspect of life. It influenced every field of life, including the economy, and revealed the inadequacies in all nations' healthcare systems, from the most developed to the underdeveloped countries. There is a debate about the timing...

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Autores principales: Jameel, Tahir, Baig, Mukhtiar, Gazzaz, Zohair J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Preventive Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782867
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9048
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description In the world scenario, the advent of COVID-19 has halted every aspect of life. It influenced every field of life, including the economy, and revealed the inadequacies in all nations' healthcare systems, from the most developed to the underdeveloped countries. There is a debate about the timing of antibodies production and detection during the disease. What is the significance of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) in symptom resolving period? In the present manuscript, we have evaluated these points.
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spelling pubmed-74105092020-08-10 Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria Jameel, Tahir Baig, Mukhtiar Gazzaz, Zohair J Cureus Preventive Medicine In the world scenario, the advent of COVID-19 has halted every aspect of life. It influenced every field of life, including the economy, and revealed the inadequacies in all nations' healthcare systems, from the most developed to the underdeveloped countries. There is a debate about the timing of antibodies production and detection during the disease. What is the significance of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) in symptom resolving period? In the present manuscript, we have evaluated these points. Cureus 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7410509/ /pubmed/32782867 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9048 Text en Copyright © 2020, Jameel et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Preventive Medicine
Jameel, Tahir
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Gazzaz, Zohair J
Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title_full Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title_fullStr Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title_full_unstemmed Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title_short Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria
title_sort persistence of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) positivity in covid-19 recovered patients: a call for revised hospital discharge criteria
topic Preventive Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782867
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9048
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