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Clinical Sensitivity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosing Coronavirus Disease 2019.
Document Type
Article
Source
Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Aug2020, Vol. 7 Issue 8, p1-3. 3p.
Subject
*COVID-19
*NUCLEIC acid amplification techniques
*COVID-19 pandemic
Language
ISSN
2328-8957
Abstract
Utilizing 34 348 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) results from 2 health systems, we estimated the clinical sensitivity of a single SARS-CoV-2 NAAT. We found that SARS-CoV-2 NAAT has 82%–97% sensitivity for diagnosing coronavirus disease 2019 among symptomatic patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]