{"id":6429,"date":"2021-03-11T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:51:00","slug":"follow-up-testing-of-borderline-sars-cov-2-patients-by-rrt-pcr-allows-early-diagnosis-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/11\/follow-up-testing-of-borderline-sars-cov-2-patients-by-rrt-pcr-allows-early-diagnosis-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up Testing of Borderline SARS-CoV-2 Patients by RRT-PCR Allows Early Diagnosis of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Follow-up testing of &#8220;borderline&#8221; PCR test results within 96 hours occasionally identified additional positive results, according to a retrospective analysis of over 30,000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results (1,092 positive). Of the 204 borderline results, which had viral amplification just below the positivity threshold (&gt;25 viral copies\/mL), 107 were re-tested and 10 were found positive, representing 0.92% of overall positive results.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Boeckmans et al.\u00a0(Feb 18, 2021). Follow-up Testing of Borderline SARS-CoV-2 Patients by RRT-PCR Allows Early Diagnosis of COVID-19. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115350\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115350<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow-up testing of &#8220;borderline&#8221; PCR test results within 96 hours occasionally identified additional positive results, according to a retrospective analysis of over 30,000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results (1,092 positive). Of the 204 borderline results, which had viral amplification just below the positivity threshold (&gt;25 viral copies\/mL), 107 were re-tested and 10 were found positive, representing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/11\/follow-up-testing-of-borderline-sars-cov-2-patients-by-rrt-pcr-allows-early-diagnosis-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-6429","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\/6429","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}