Table 4.
Ct values of SARS-CoV-2 gene ORF1ab and N in samples of throat swab collected from patients with COVID-19.
| Variable | ORF1ab gene |
N gene |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Ct value | P-value | n (%) | Ct value | P-value | |
| Clinical category | ||||||
| Mild | 61(70.1) | 28.40 ± 5.02 | 0.475 | 13(22.4) | 31.14 ± 3.33 | 0.029 |
| Moderate | 19(21.8) | 27.96 ± 4.78 | 41(70.7) | 28.72 ± 6.21 | ||
| Severe | 7(8.1) | 25.76 ± 9.55 | 4(6.9) | 22.12 ± 6.94 | ||
| Transmission generations | ||||||
| Index case | 43(49.4) | 27.40 ± 5.32 | 0.297 | 25(43.1) | 27.03 ± 4.59 | 0.091 |
| 1 st generation | 39(44.8) | 29.07 ± 5.09 | 29(50.0) | 29.77 ± 6.99 | ||
| 2nd + 3rd generation | 5(5.8) | 26.41 ± 8.12 | 4(6.9) | 32.90 ± 2.75 | ||
| Total | 87(100.0) | 28.09 ± 5.41 | 58(100.0) | 28.80 ± 6.02 | ||