False negative rate of COVID-19 PCR testing: a discordant testing analysis

False negative rate of COVID-19 PCR testing: a discordant testing analysis

Abstract Background COVID-19 is diagnosed via detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using real time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rtRT-PCR). Performance of many SARS-CoV-2 rtRT-PCR assays is not entirely known due to the lack of a gold standard. We sought to evaluate the false negative rate...

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Main Authors: Jamil N. Kanji, Nathan Zelyas, Clayton MacDonald, Kanti Pabbaraju, Muhammad Naeem Khan, Abhaya Prasad, Jia Hu, Mathew Diggle, Byron M. Berenger, Graham Tipples
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Virology Journal
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Discordant testing
False negative rate
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01489-0

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01489-0

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