Computed Tomographic Imaging of 3 Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia With Negative Virus Real-time Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test

Junqing Xu; Ruodai Wu; Hua Huang; Weidong Zheng; Xinling Ren; Nashan Wu; Bin Ji; Yungang Lv; Yumeng Liu; Rui Mi

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa207

Computed Tomographic Imaging of 3 Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia With Negative Virus Real-time Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 28;71(15):850-852. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa207.

Authors

Junqing Xu¹, Ruodai Wu¹, Hua Huang¹, Weidong Zheng², Xinling Ren³, Nashan Wu¹, Bin Ji¹, Yungang Lv¹, Yumeng Liu¹, Rui Mi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen, China.
² Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen, China.
³ Department of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen, China.

Abstract

We reported computed tomographic (CT) imaging findings of 3 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia with initially negative results before CT examination and finally confirmed positive for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay.

Keywords: chest CT; covid-19 pneumonia; rt-PCR.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus*
Humans
Pandemics*
Patient Discharge
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed