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Why is chest CT important for early diagnosis of COVID-19? Prevalence matters

2020-04-01

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SARS-CoV-2 viral infection is a global pandemic disease (COVID-19). Reaching a swift, reliable diagnosis of COVID-19 in the emergency departments is imperative to direct patients to proper care and to prevent disease dissemination. COVID-19 diagnosis is based on the identification of viral RNA through RT-PCR from oral-nasopharyngeal swabs, which however presents suboptimal sensitivity and may require several hours...

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Literature Corpus work: 14ae632b-1f77-5637-81f0-b2ea3b5c4c85
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.30.20047985

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