Factors associated with viral clearance periods from patients with COVID-19: A retrospective observational cohort study

The study aims to identify the clinical and demographic factors influencing the time taken for viral clearance in patients with COVID-19 to determine...

Demographic, clinical, and epidemiologic characteristics of persons under investigation for Coronavirus Disease 2019-United States, January 17-February 29, 2020

This report describes the demographic, clinical, and epidemiologic characteristics of 544 U.S. persons under investigation (PUI) for complete SARS-CoV...

Predictors of laboratory-positive COVID-19 in children and teenagers

Data from 1849 individuals were analyzed. COVID-19 was confirmed in 15.9% of patients. Increasing age, personal history of obesity, and household cont...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infections in Critical Care Staff: Beware the Risks Beyond the Bedside

We compared the timing of symptoms in the first wave of the pandemic to the time it was at its peak. Participants completed a questionnaire and provid...

Clinical evaluation of a SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay on a fully automated system for rapid on-demand testing in the hospital setting

The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic presents a unique challenge for diagnostic laboratories around the world. The E-Gene-LDT showed analytical and clinica...

Sample pooling for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR screening

3519 nasopharyngeal samples received at nine Spanish microbiology laboratories were processed individually and in pools. Sensitivity, specificity and...

Evaluation of the Aptima™ transcription-mediated amplification assay (Hologic®) for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in clinical specimens

This week's episode focuses on a case study of a case involving a case of mistaken identity. The case study was about a case where the media focused o...

Comparison of the GeneFinder TM COVID-19 Plus RealAmp Kit on the sample-to-result Platform ELITe InGenius to the national reference method: An added value of N gene target detection?

The study was to assess the diagnostic performance of the GeneFinderTMCOVID-19 Plus RealAmp Kit on the ELITe InGenius sample-to-result platform. Of 12...

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