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01-04-2021 | SARS-CoV-2 | Correspondence
Contribution of anosmia and dysgeusia for diagnostic of COVID-19 in outpatients
Authors:
Souheil Zayet, Timothee Klopfenstein, Julien Mercier, N’dri Juliette Kadiane-Oussou, Ludovic Lan Cheong Wah, Pierre-Yves Royer, Lynda Toko, Vincent Gendrin
Published in:
Infection
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Issue 2/2021
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Excerpt
Since its introduction to the human population in December 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread worldwide. More than 80% of patients with COVID-19 present with influenza-like illness (ILI) or mild pneumonia [
1], most of these patients are not hospitalized. Real time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is used to detect the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from respiratory samples [
2]. We aim to compare the symptoms of patients with positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results and to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) for each of these symptoms in regard to SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. …
