Is the Patient Infected with SARS-CoV-2?
Jeffrey D KlausnerNoah KojimaSusan M Butler-WuPublished in: Journal of clinical microbiology (2021)
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.