Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates

Rita Jaafar; Sarah Aherfi; Nathalie Wurtz; Clio Grimaldier; Thuan Van Hoang; Philippe Colson; Didier Raoult; Bernard La Scola

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1491

Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 1;72(11):e921. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1491.

Authors

Rita Jaafar^{1

2}, Sarah Aherfi^{1

2}, Nathalie Wurtz^{1

2}, Clio Grimaldier^{1

2}, Thuan Van Hoang^{1

3

4}, Philippe Colson^{1

2}, Didier Raoult^{1

2}, Bernard La Scola^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU)-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Aix Marseille Univ, Institut pour le Recherche et le Developpement (IRD), Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Microbes Evolution and Phylogeny (MEPHI), Marseille, France.
³ Aix Marseille Univ, Institut pour le Recherche et le Developpement (IRD), Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), SSA, Vecteurs Infection Tropicales et Mediterraneennes (VITROME), Marseille, France.
⁴ Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Binh, Viet Nam.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Cell Culture Techniques
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2*