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Transmission risk of patients with COVID-19 meeting discharge criteria should be interpreted with caution
- Source :
- Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- As of Apr. 22, 2020, the World Health Organization (2020) has reported over 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and 169 151 deaths. Recent articles have uncovered genomic characteristics and clinical features of COVID-19 (Chan et al., 2020; Chang et al., 2020; Guan et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020), while our understanding of COVID-19 is still limited. As suggested by guidelines promoted by the General Office of National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (2020) (from Versions 1 to 6), discharged standards for COVID-19 were still dependent on viral real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests of respiratory specimens, showing that recovered COVID-19 patients with twice negative RT-PCR could meet discharge criteria. Here, we examined two cases in which nucleic acid test results were inconsistent with clinical and radiological findings, leading to suboptimal care.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Adult
Male
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
China
COVID-19 Vaccines
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Pneumonia, Viral
Viral transmission
Mistake
Computed tomography
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
0302 clinical medicine
COVID-19 Testing
Correspondence
Medicine
Humans
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Pandemics
新型冠状病毒 (SARS-CoV-2)
Patient discharge
General Veterinary
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
实时聚合酶链式反应 (RT-PCR)
Sputum
COVID-19
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Patient Discharge
030104 developmental biology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
business
Nuclear medicine
Coronavirus Infections
2019 冠状病毒病 (COVID-19)
Inferior lobe
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18621783
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f7d236e7ec85bcdf7e98e02cbaa6da84