The Truth about SARS-CoV-2 Cycle Threshold Values Is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
Clin Chem
.
2021 Dec 30;68(1):16-18.
doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvab146.
Authors
Daniel D Rhoads
1
2
,
Benjamin A Pinsky
3
4
5
Affiliations
1
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
2
Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
3
Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
4
Clinical Virology Laboratory, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA, USA.
5
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
PMID:
34314495
DOI:
10.1093/clinchem/hvab146
No abstract available
Keywords:
infectious disease; molecular diagnostics; real-time PCR.
MeSH terms
COVID-19* / diagnosis
Humans
RNA, Viral
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2* / isolation & purification
Viral Load*
Substances
RNA, Viral
Grants and funding
Cleveland Diagnostics
Luminex
1U54CA260517-01/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Agilent and PathogenDx
MesoScale Diagnostics