Plasma as an alternative COVID-19 diagnostic specimen in a hospitalized patient negative for SARS-CoV-2 by nasopharyngeal swab

We present the case of an inpatient with pneumonia and repeatedly negative nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 testing. In such challenging cases, alternative diagnostic options include lower respiratory tract and plasma SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing, of which the latter may be particularly useful where bronchoscopy...

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Veröffentlicht in:Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Hauptverfasser: Lawrence, Lauren, Stevens, Bryan A., Sahoo, Malaya K., Huang, ChunHong, Yamamoto, Fumiko, Röltgen, Katharina, Wirz, Oliver, Zehnder, James, Shi, Run-Zhang, Boyd, Scott D., Schoolnik, Gary, Pinsky, Benjamin A., Hogan, Catherine A.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Virology
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930728/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33865070
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115365
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