id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-339241-e2nl766y Turriziani, Ombretta SARS‐CoV‐2 diagnostics in the virology laboratory of a University Hospital in Rome during the lockdown period 2020-08-02 .txt text/plain 1290 93 53 The study retrospectively included 6565 subjects tested for SARS‐CoV‐2 at the Laboratory of Virology of Sapienza University Hospital in Rome from 6 March to 4 May. A total of 9995 clinical specimens were analyzed, including nasopharyngeal swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage fluids, gargle lavages, stools, pleural fluids, and cerebrospinal fluids. This analysis allowed to gather comprehensive information on SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemiology in our area, highlighting positivity variations over time and in different sex and age group and the need for a continuous surveillance of the infection, mostly because the pandemic evolution remains unknown. In this scenario this paper aims to take a snapshot of the epidemiological characteristics of the population resulted positive for SARS-CoV-2 at Sapienza University Hospital "Policlinico Umberto I" in Rome starting from 6 March until 4 May. This study includes all individuals (n = 6565) who have been tested 2.1 | Statistical analysis χ 2 Test was used to analyze the differences in positivity between groups. ./cache/cord-339241-e2nl766y.txt ./txt/cord-339241-e2nl766y.txt