id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-259181-g47n97tc Khan, Zahid Hussain Tests with proven value in diagnosis of COVID-19 2020-06-17 .txt text/plain 1127 46 53 At times chest CT-Scan is used as an important compliment to the rRT-PCR test for the diagnosis of COVID-19 because it has a higher Se reaching up to 97% (4) . Other than the chest CT-Scan, the currently available diagnostic tests for the coronavirus disease have a low positive predictive value for the disease because of a low Se and moderate Sp. Thus, we are witnessing a large number of false positives or else would be missing too many true positives. Improved molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 by the novel, highly sensitive and specific COVID-19-RdRp/Hel real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay validated in vitro and with clinical specimens Correlation of chest CT and RT-PCR testing in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a report of 1014 cases ./cache/cord-259181-g47n97tc.txt ./txt/cord-259181-g47n97tc.txt