Nosocomial severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission arising from a case of N-gene dropout on reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jan;44(1):154-156. doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.170. Epub 2022 Jul 1.

Authors

Liang En Ian Wee^#^{1

2}, Karrie Kwan-Ki Ko^#^{3

4

5}, Edwin Philip Conceicao⁶, May Kyawt Aung⁶, Myat Oo Aung⁶, Yong Yang⁶, Shalvi Arora⁶, Chayaporn Suphavilai⁵, Indumathi Venkatachalam^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
² Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
³ Department of Molecular Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
⁵ Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.
⁶ Department of Infection Prevention and Epidemiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19* / diagnosis
Cross Infection* / prevention & control
Humans
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
Sensitivity and Specificity
Virus Diseases*