Clinical characteristics of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Kuwait alsharrah2020clinical

This study measured SARS-CoV-2 detected by real-time reverse transcriptase PCR in paired oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal samples from 33 COVID-19 patients in Jaber Alahmad Hospital (JAH). Cycle threshold (Ct) value for E and RdRP genes were measured using Tib MolBiol’s LightMix.

Analytes

NPS_SARSCoV2

This analyte indicates the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs, but only the nasopharyngeal swab values are presented.

Biomarker: SARS-CoV-2
Specimen: nasopharyngeal swab
Units: cycle threshold
Gene target: E and RdRP
Participants: 29
Negative samples: 53
Positive samples (not quantifiable): 0
Quantifiable samples: 22
Limit of quantification: unknown
Limit of detection: 41