Clinical Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosing COVID-19

Jessica P. Ridgway,Jennifer Pisano,Emily Landon,Kathleen G. Beavis,Ari Robicsek

Clinical Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosing COVID-19

2020

Jessica P. Ridgway
Jennifer Pisano
Emily Landon
Kathleen G. Beavis
Ari Robicsek

Utilizing 34,348 SARS CoV-2 NAAT results from two 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 COVID-19 among symptomatic patients

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Virology
Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Medicine
healthcare system
Coronavirus disease 2019
2019 20 coronavirus outbreak

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