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SUBMITTER: Rawat P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239708 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rawat Priyank P Zerbato Jennifer M JM Rhodes Ajantha A Chiu Chris C Tran Thomas T Rasmussen Thomas A TA Druce Julian J Lewin Sharon R SR Roche Michael M
Pathology 20220629 5
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assay has been the primary method of diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, RT-qPCR assay interpretation can be ambiguous with no universal absolute cut-off value to determine sample positivity, which particularly complicates the analysis of samples with high Ct values, or weak positives. Therefore, we sought to analyse factors associated with weak positive SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis. We analy ...[more]