Universal admission screening strategy for COVID-19 highlighted the clinical importance of reporting SARS-CoV-2 viral loads
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Amplifying and Quantifying HIV-1 RNA in HIV Infected Individuals with Viral Loads Below the Limit of Detection by Standard Clinical Assays
Published on: September 26, 2011
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M Moraz1, D Jacot1, M Papadimitriou-Olivgeris2,3
1Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
New Microbes and New Infections
|November 25, 2020
Abstract:
Previously limited to symptomatic patients, our hospital introduced a universal admission screening strategy for coronavirus disease 2019 on 25 April 2020. All patients were tested by RT-PCR. We observed decreased viral loads linked to increased screening of asymptomatic patients highlighting the fact that viral load values could guide infection control decisions.

