… /s sent to our virology unit for the laboratory confirmation of SARS-CoV-2, most of the newly
… (512/527), while for a minor number of cases diagnosis was made by BAL (11/527). For four …

… to the laboratories of Azienda Policlinico Umberto I General … I teaching hospital/Sapienza
University of Rome approved … addition to those already lost in lockdown periods (40), they may …

… from China tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Rome. The first … in one of the two initial
lockdown areas in northern Italy. In a … swab confirmed the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. A …

… Real-time PCR assays represent the gold standard for the laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2
infection; however, false-negative results may occur. Several factors may be responsible …

… It led the Italian government to impose a nationwide lockdown … came to our hospital already
with a COVID-19 diagnosis; thus, … SARS-CoV-2, with either clinical, serology, or virological …

… for COVID-19’s laboratory diagnosis and the acute patient’s … included, and the effect of national
lockdown. Finally, it could provide … For initial diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2, the CDC …

… patients (>95%) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 exhibit … with persons with a diagnosis
or suspected symptoms of … , timing and type of local lockdown and quarantine measures. …

… of patients during the lockdown period. For the remaining … demographical, clinical, laboratory
and therapeutic data. The few … on effective ART, with virological suppression, a high median …

… Lockdown measures and social distancing sparked a global … ) associated with the three main
university hospitals (Clínic, Bellvitge … immunoassay (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, …

… to implement in laboratory diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2, especially … Our large teaching hospital
gave us the opportunity to enroll a … in work-from-home, during the Italian lockdown period. …