{"id":8985,"date":"2020-08-11T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:08:04","slug":"an-understanding-of-discordant-sars-cov-2-test-results-an-examination-of-the-data-from-a-central-auckland-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/an-understanding-of-discordant-sars-cov-2-test-results-an-examination-of-the-data-from-a-central-auckland-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"An Understanding of Discordant SARS-CoV-2 Test Results: An Examination of the Data from a Central Auckland Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Results from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a retrospective observational study\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">initial negative and subsequent positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in New Zealan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d suggest\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">repeat testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may be indicated for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who have a significant risk factor<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n initial<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0negative test result<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0total of 20,089 samples were received for SARS-CoV-2 testing. Of 2,011 samples from patients with multiple tests, 25 samples were positive. Nine samples were from patients who initially tested negative then tested positive. All\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9 of these<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0patients had significant risk factors\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, such a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s international travel or exposure to a known contact,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and ongoing or evolving symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prompted<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0repeat testing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fox-Lewis et al. (July 31, 2020). An Understanding of Discordant SARS-CoV-2 Test Results: An Examination of the Data from a Central Auckland Laboratory. The New Zealand Medical Journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzma.org.nz\/journal-articles\/an-understanding-of-discordant-sars-cov-2-test-results-an-examination-of-the-data-from-a-central-auckland-laboratory\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.nzma.org.nz\/journal-articles\/an-understanding-of-discordant-sars-cov-2-test-results-an-examination-of-the-data-from-a-central-auckland-laboratory<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from\u00a0a retrospective observational study\u00a0of\u00a0patients with\u00a0initial negative and subsequent positive\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results\u00a0in New Zealand suggest\u00a0repeat testing\u00a0may be indicated for\u00a0patients\u00a0who have a significant risk factor\u00a0for infection\u00a0and an initial\u00a0negative test result.\u00a0A\u00a0total of 20,089 samples were received for SARS-CoV-2 testing. Of 2,011 samples from patients with multiple tests, 25 samples were positive. Nine samples were from patients who&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/an-understanding-of-discordant-sars-cov-2-test-results-an-examination-of-the-data-from-a-central-auckland-laboratory\/\">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-8985","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\/8985","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=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}