Table 1.

Characteristics of airway samples with a lone E gene PCR positivity.

	Patient samples	Symptomatic infection	Age at testing	Gender	E gene	Lowest Ct after indeterminate
	N (%/total)	N (%/group)	(mean ± SD)	(F/M)	Mean Ct (total range)	RdRp/S	N
Preceding positivity	1 (4.16%)	0	80	0/1	38.02	∞	37.95
After positivity	9 (37.5%)	8 (88.9%)	71.33 ± 15.04	6/3	37.97 (37.54–38.21)	N/A	N/A
Among positive results	4 (16.67%)	4 (100%)	64.5 ± 22.29	2/2	38.45 (37.75–39.83)	35.74	34.22
No known positivity	10 (41.67%)	0	54.4 ± 21.93	6/4	37.84 (37.47–39.26)	N/A	N/A