Ct value is not enough to discriminate patients harbouring infective virus

J Infect. 2021 Mar;82(3):e35-e37. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.11.025. Epub 2020 Nov 26.

Authors

María Pilar Romero-Gómez¹, Silvia Gómez-Sebastian², Emilio Cendejas-Bueno³, María Dolores Montero-Vega³, Jesús Mingorance³, Julio García-Rodríguez³; SARS-CoV-2 Working Group³

Affiliations

¹ Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, Paseo de La Castellana 261, Madrid 28046, Spain. Electronic address: mpromero.hulp@salud.madrid.org.
² Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Microbiology, C/ Arzobispo Morcillo, 2, Madrid 28029, Spain.
³ Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, Paseo de La Castellana 261, Madrid 28046, Spain.

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed