A COVID-19 patient with seven consecutive false-negative rRT-PCR results from sputum specimens

Intern Emerg Med. 2020 Aug;15(5):871-874. doi: 10.1007/s11739-020-02423-y. Epub 2020 Jul 2.

Cong-Ying Song^{1

2}, Da-Gan Yang³, Yuan-Qiang Lu^{4

5}

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, People's Republic of China.
² Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Aging and Physic-Chemical Injury Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, People's Republic of China. luyuanqiang@zju.edu.cn.
⁵ Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Aging and Physic-Chemical Injury Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, People's Republic of China. luyuanqiang@zju.edu.cn.

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Keywords: COVID-19; False-negative; SARS-CoV-2; rRT-PCR.

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