Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases

Kévin Bouiller (1, 2) , Sébastien Humbert (1) , Camille Payet-Revest (1) , Anne-Sophie Brunel (3, 1) , Adrien Mareshal (1) , Quentin Lepiller (1) , Franck Grillet (1) , Catherine Chirouze (2, 1)

1 CHRU Besançon - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon
2 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
3 Département Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Universitaire, Montpellier, France

PCR-based viral RNA to confirm the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection has a sensitivity of around 70%. We report three cases of patients with negative initial PCR and CT scan lesions that led us to suspect COVID-19, but which one(s) are really COVID-19?

Mots clés: COVID-19; CT scan; Coronavirus; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; SARS-CoV2

Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie; Microbiologie et Parasitologie

Kévin Bouiller, Sébastien Humbert, Camille Payet-Revest, Anne-Sophie Brunel, Adrien Mareshal, et al.. Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases. Infection, 2020, 48 (6), pp.945-948. ⟨10.1007/s15010-020-01467-8⟩. ⟨hal-03068371⟩