Authors: Sun, Yinxiaohe, Koh, Vanessa, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, Ng, Oon Tek, Young, Barnaby, Vasoo, Shawn, Chan, Monica, Lee, Vernon J M, De, Partha P, Barkham, Timothy, Lin, Raymond T P, Cook, Alex R, Leo, Yee Sin, Lian Lim, Poh, Ang, Brenda, Chuan Lee, Cheng, Lye, David Chien Boon, Ling, Li Min, Lawrence Soon-U, Sadarangani, Sapna, Seong Wong, Chen, Tau Hong, Junhao Lin, Ray, Chia, Po Ying, Sadasiv, Mucheli Sharavan, Deborah Hee Ling, Choy, Chiaw Yee, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Tan, Glorijoy Shi En, Yu Kit, Tay, Jun Yang, Pei Hua, Ong, Sean Wei Xiang, Sutjipto, Stephanie, Wee, Ian Liang En, Frederico, Dimatatac, Go, Chi Jong, Isais, Florante Santo
Venue: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Type: Publication
Abstract: Abstract Background Rapid identification of COVID-19 cases, which is crucial to outbreak containment efforts, is challenging due to the lack of pathognomonic symptoms and in settings with limited capacity for specialized nucleic acid–based reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. Methods This retrospective case-control study involves subjects (7–98 years) presenting at the designated national outbreak screening center and tertiary care hospital in Singapore for SARS-CoV-2 testing from 26 January to 16 February 2020. CO...
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Topics: 
Virology
Immunology
DOI:
10.1093/cid/ciaa426
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