Open AccessRelationship of the cycle threshold values of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction and total severity score of computerized tomography in patients with COVID 19
Author(s) -
Ayşegül Yağcı,
Rabia Can Sarınoğlu,
Hüseyin Bilgin,
Özgür Yanılmaz,
Elvan Sayın,
D. Guneser-Merdan,
Mehmet Mücahit Güncü,
Zahide Doyuk,
Barış Can,
Beyza Nur Kuzan,
Bülent Aslan,
Volkan Korten,
Çağatay Çimşit
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1449
Subject(s) - viral load , medicine , covid-19 , lesion , polymerase chain reaction , gastroenterology , virus , pathology , virology , biology , gene , biochemistry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Studies analyzing viral load in COVID-19 patients and any data that compare viral load with chest computerized tomography (CT) severity are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the severity of chest CT in reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-positive patients and factors associated with it.
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