More reliability of suspicious symptoms plus chest CT-scan than RT_PCR test for the diagnosis of COVID-19 in an 18-days-old neonate
oleh: Sepideh Mahdavi, Amirhessam Kheirieh, Salman Daliri, Mohammad Hossein Kalantar, Maryam Valikhani, Ahmad Khosravi, Mostafa Enayatrad, Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Reza Chaman, Marzieh Rohani-Rasaf
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Elsevier 2020-01-01 |
Deskripsi
The present study investigated an 18-days-old neonate who was referred to the hospital with suspected respiratory symptoms of COVID-19. Results of CT-Scan and blood tests were highly suspicious, but result of the first RT-PCR test was negative on March 1. The second RT-PCR test reported positive on March 12. The neonate's medical history indicated no close contact except with family members and hospital treatment staffs, but the RT-PCR test results of all family members were also negative.