False negative rate of COVID-19 is eliminated by using nasal swab test

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Sep-Oct:37:101668. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101668. Epub 2020 Apr 11.

Authors

Chaojun Xie¹, Jianyun Lu¹, Di Wu¹, Lin Zhang¹, Hongjun Zhao², Boqi Rao², Zhicong Yang³

Affiliations

¹ Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, 510440, PR China.
² The Institute for Public Health, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510182, PR China.
³ Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, 510440, PR China. Electronic address: yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections* / diagnosis
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2