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The Issue of Recurrently Positive Patients Who Recovered From COVID-19 According to the Current Discharge Criteria: Investigation of Patients from Multiple Medical Institutions in Wuhan, China.
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- Author(s): Zou, You (); Wang, Bin-Ru (); Sun, Liu (); Xu, Shan (); Kong, Yong-Gang (); Shen, Li-Jun (); Liang, Geng-Tian (); Chen, Shi-Ming ()
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Journal of Infectious Diseases. Dec2020, Vol. 222 Issue 11, p1784-1788. 5p.
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The current discharge criteria for COVID-19 require that patients have 2 consecutive negative results for reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection. Here, we observed that recurrent positive RT-PCR test results in patients with 3 consecutive negative results (5.4%) were significantly decreased compared with those in patients with 2 consecutive negative results (20.6%); such patients reported positive RT-PCR test results within 1 to 12 days after meeting the discharge criteria. These results confirmed that many recovered patients could show a positive RT-PCR test result, and most of these patients could be identified by an additional RT-PCR test prior to discharge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
