{"id":6150,"date":"2020-04-20T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:41:19","slug":"diagnosis-of-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-rrt-pcr-or-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/20\/diagnosis-of-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-rrt-pcr-or-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): rRT-PCR or CT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long et al compared the diagnosis value of CT vs real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) in 36 patients, reporting sensitivities of 97.2% and 83.3%, respectively, at the time of initial testing. Six patients were missed in the first round of rRT-PCR, indicating that this method may produce initial false negative results. The authors suggest that patients with typical CT findings of COVID-19 infection but negative rRT-PCR results should be isolated and rRT-PCR should be repeated to avoid misdiagnosis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long et al. (Mar 25, 2020). Diagnosis of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): rRT-PCR or CT? Eur J Radiol.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.15.20066407v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.15.20066407<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long et al compared the diagnosis value of CT vs real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) in 36 patients, reporting sensitivities of 97.2% and 83.3%, respectively, at the time of initial testing. Six patients were missed in the first round of rRT-PCR, indicating that this method may produce initial false negative results. The authors suggest that patients with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/20\/diagnosis-of-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-rrt-pcr-or-ct\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","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=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}