Specificity and positive predictive value of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification testing in a low-prevalence setting

OBJECTIVES: When the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is low, many positive test results are false positives. Confirmatory testing reduces overdiagnosis and nosocomial infection and enables real-world estimates of test specificity and positive predictive val...

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Publicado en:Clin Microbiol Infect
Autores principales: Skittrall, Jordan P., Wilson, Michael, Smielewska, Anna A., Parmar, Surendra, Fortune, Mary D., Sparkes, Dominic, Curran, Martin D., Zhang, Hongyi, Jalal, Hamid
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554481/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33068757
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2020.10.003
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