The Correlation between Chest CT and Quantitative RT-PCR Results for COVID-19 Diagnosing in Iran

¹School of Medicine, AJA University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

²Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Medicine, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³Golestan Hospital, Tehran, Iran

⁴Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

*Corresponding Author : Sabet MN School of Medicine, AJA University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran Tel: +9843822368 E-mail: E-mail: Dr.m.sabet@gmail.com

Received: May 22, 2020 Accepted: June 08, 2020 Published: July 04, 2020

Citation: Esmaeilzadeh E, Sabet MN*, Heidari FM, Khanalipou M, Ashiani M et al. (2020) The Correlation between Chest CT and Quantitative RT-PCR Results for COVID-19 Diagnosing in Iran. J Diagn Tech Biomed Anal 9:2. doi: 10.37532/jdtba.2020.9(2).143

The aim of this study was the assessment of chest CT and quantitative RT-PCR reliabilities in diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia in Iran. This retrospective study was conducted on 740 COVID-19 suspected cases from 15 February to 5 April 2020, which had both CT and RT-PCR. The efficiency of chest CT for COVID-19 detection had been assessed in comparison to RT-PCR as the reference test. Among 740 cases, 637(86.1%) had positive chest CT and 455 patients (61.5%) had positive RT-PCR results. With RT-PCR as the reference test, the sensitivity of chest CT was 89.45%. According to the results, RT-PCR may produce initial false-negative results, suggesting that patients with positive chest CT but negative RT-PCR may be the disease carrier and should be isolated.