{"id":8830,"date":"2021-04-07T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:00:16","slug":"real-world-assessment-of-sars-cov-2-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-in-a-high-burden-covid-19-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/real-world-assessment-of-sars-cov-2-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-in-a-high-burden-covid-19-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Real World Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing in a High Burden COVID-19 Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An observational analysis of hospitalized US patients who were retested for SARS-CoV-2 due to high clinician concern for a potential false-negative found that 7\/160 (4.4%) patients with an initial negative nasopharyngeal PCR test had a subsequent positive test within 48 hours. The authors conclude that routine retesting for SARS-CoV-2 is not indicated and should only be considered when clinical suspicion is high.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sangal et al.\u00a0(Apr 7, 2021). Real World Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing in a High Burden COVID-19 Region. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.153\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.153<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An observational analysis of hospitalized US patients who were retested for SARS-CoV-2 due to high clinician concern for a potential false-negative found that 7\/160 (4.4%) patients with an initial negative nasopharyngeal PCR test had a subsequent positive test within 48 hours. The authors conclude that routine retesting for SARS-CoV-2 is not indicated and should only&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/real-world-assessment-of-sars-cov-2-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-in-a-high-burden-covid-19-region\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8830","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\/8830","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=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}