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Impact of Nasopharyngeal Specimen Quality on SARS-CoV-2 Test Sensitivity

2020-12-11

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<h4>Background</h4> The SARS-CoV-2 reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) cycle of threshold (Ct) has been used to estimate quantitative viral load, with the goal of targeting isolation precautions for individuals with COVID-19 and guiding public health interventions. However, variability in specimen quality can alter the Ct values obtained from SARS-CoV-2 clinical assays. We sought to define how...

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Literature Corpus work: bfd300e2-42ea-570d-a72b-e592a438da81
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.09.20246520

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