Repeat laboratory testing of SARS-CoV-2 is necessary to diagnose COVID-19

The pandemic of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is ravaging the world. Diagnosis and isolation of persons who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 is very important medical emergency to contain the epidemic of COVID-19. To date, the diagnosis of COVID-19 is mainly depending on posi...

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Autores principales: Zhuang, Guilong, Ou, Xueting, Zhou, Liyang, Pan, Xingfei, Li, Guohang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34391172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.008
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Sumario:The pandemic of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is ravaging the world. Diagnosis and isolation of persons who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 is very important medical emergency to contain the epidemic of COVID-19. To date, the diagnosis of COVID-19 is mainly depending on positive quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) results for SARS-CoV-2. In the present study, we reported that two cases with uncommon symptoms from a family cluster were ultimately diagnosed as COVID-19 after more than twice of collecting samples and qRT-PCR tests were done. It is easily to miss diagnosis of COVID-19 especially for patients with uncommon symptoms. More attention should be paid to observe the clinical characteristics of it and invent more accurate and convenient methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 as soon as possible.

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