{"id":607,"date":"2020-08-31T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:17:21","slug":"low-utility-of-repeat-real-time-pcr-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-clinical-specimens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/31\/low-utility-of-repeat-real-time-pcr-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-clinical-specimens\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Utility of Repeat Real-Time PCR Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Clinical Specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among people retested for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR within 7-days of a negative test (n=1,113), 2% had a positive result. Challener et al. conclude that the decision to repeat a SARS-CoV-2 PCR should involve the revised probability of COVID-19 based on the initial negative test, an assessment of whether an alternate specimen type may provide a higher diagnostic yield, and the impact on patient care if a laboratory diagnosis is not secured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Challener et al. (Sept 2020). Low Utility of Repeat Real-Time PCR Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Clinical Specimens. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32861337\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32861337<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among people retested for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR within 7-days of a negative test (n=1,113), 2% had a positive result. Challener et al. conclude that the decision to repeat a SARS-CoV-2 PCR should involve the revised probability of COVID-19 based on the initial negative test, an assessment of whether an alternate specimen type may provide a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/31\/low-utility-of-repeat-real-time-pcr-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-clinical-specimens\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}