Is the Patient Infected with SARS-CoV-2?

Jeffrey D Klausner; Noah Kojima; Susan M Butler-Wu

doi:10.1128/JCM.00147-21

Is the Patient Infected with SARS-CoV-2?

J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Mar 19;59(4):e00147-21. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00147-21. Print 2021 Mar 19.

Authors

Jeffrey D Klausner¹, Noah Kojima², Susan M Butler-Wu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA JDKlausner@mednet.ucla.edu.
² UCLA School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Abstract

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently uses the nasopharyngeal swab specimen as the reference standard for evaluation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) assays. We propose that the patient-infected status algorithm is a superior way to classify whether an individual is infected or not infected.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; assay; assess; testing.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Humans
Nasopharynx
SARS-CoV-2*