id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285362-7dc2gox0 Jacot, Damien Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 across patients and compared to other respiratory viruses 2020-09-07 .txt text/plain 1229 86 59 title: Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 across patients and compared to other respiratory viruses We analyzed SARS-CoV-2 viral loads from 22'323 RT-PCR results according to samples types, gender, age, and health units. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) represents a 24 key diagnostic tool for patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection. The report of RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 viral loads raised also several 38 questions regarding the use of this information for the laboratory as an internal quality assessment 39 tool, as well as (i) to predict contagiousness of patients and hence to guide epidemiological 40 decisions, especially for hospitalized patients and (ii) to predict the patient prognosis and assess for the E-gene PCR was those described by Corman and colleague (4) . Clinical progression and 218 viral load in a community outbreak of coronavirus-associated SARS pneumonia: a prospective study SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper 224 Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients ./cache/cord-285362-7dc2gox0.txt ./txt/cord-285362-7dc2gox0.txt