Initial PCR Testing Negative, but Chest CT Suggesting for Viral Pneumonia Urges for Repeated Testing for COVID-19 Diagnosis

Lingwei Wang; Danting Zhan; Xiaodi Liu; Kai Yang; Shipin Wu; Heng Zhang; Min Yu; Yimin Zha; Weibin Huang; Lei Li; Rongchang Chen; Chen Qiu

doi:10.3389/fmolb.2021.640788

Initial PCR Testing Negative, but Chest CT Suggesting for Viral Pneumonia Urges for Repeated Testing for COVID-19 Diagnosis

Front Mol Biosci. 2021 May 26:8:640788. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.640788. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Lingwei Wang^{1

2}, Danting Zhan^{1

2}, Xiaodi Liu³, Kai Yang^{1

2}, Shipin Wu³, Heng Zhang^{1

2}, Min Yu^{1

2}, Yimin Zha^{1

2}, Weibin Huang^{1

2}, Lei Li⁴, Rongchang Chen^{1

2}, Chen Qiu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ The Department of Respiratory Diseases and Critic Care Unit, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.
² Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen Major Respiratory Diseases's Prevention and Treatment Center, Shenzhen, China.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.
⁴ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Behavior, CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Manipulation, The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI), Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions, Shenzhen, China.

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Keywords: COVID-19; PCR test; chest CT; diagnosis; pneumonia.