{"id":4747,"date":"2020-02-28T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:33:45","slug":"negative-nasopharyngeal-and-oropharyngeal-swab-does-not-rule-out-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/negative-nasopharyngeal-and-oropharyngeal-swab-does-not-rule-out-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swab Does Not Rule Out COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This case report describes a 28 year old patient diagnosed with pneumonia who initially tested negative for COVID-19 on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal (NP\/OP) samples. The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR on broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) fluid on day 8 of hospitalization. This case highlights the importance of clinical suspicion in the epidemiologically-matched patients who have negative NP\/OP swab.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaewpoowat et al. (Feb 26, 2020). Negative Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swab Does Not Rule Out COVID-19. Journal of Clinical Microbiology.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32102856\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32102856<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case report describes a 28 year old patient diagnosed with pneumonia who initially tested negative for COVID-19 on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal (NP\/OP) samples. The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR on broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) fluid on day 8 of hospitalization. This case highlights the importance of clinical suspicion in the epidemiologically-matched patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/negative-nasopharyngeal-and-oropharyngeal-swab-does-not-rule-out-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}