Era of molecular diagnosis for pathogen identification of unexplained pneumonia, lessons to be learned.
Emerg Microbes Infect
; 9(1): 597-600, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-8830
ABSTRACT
Unexplained pneumonia (UP) caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) emerged in China in late December 2019 and has infected more than 9000 cases by 31 January 2020. Shanghai reported the first imported case of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) in 20 January 2020. A combinative approach of real-time RT-PCR, CRISPR-based assay and metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) were used to diagnose this unexplained pneumonia patient. Real-time RT-PCR and CRISPR-based assay both reported positive. This sample belonged to Betacoronavirus and shared a more than 99% nucleotide (nt) identity with the Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 isolates. We further compared pros and cons of common molecular diagnostics in UP. In this study, we illustrated the importance of combining molecular diagnostics to rule out common pathogens and performed mNGS to obtain unbiased potential pathogen result for the diagnosis of UP.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Long Covid
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Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Emerg Microbes Infect
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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