TABLE 2.
Comparison of the cytological measures according to COVID‐19 infection and SARS‐CoV‐2 Spike protein expression
| Parameter |
COVID−19‐infected patients‐derived epithelial cells Mean (SD; ±95%CI) |
Non‐COVID−19 patients‐derived epithelial cells Mean (SD; ±95% CI) |
P‐value |
Patients expressing the SARS‐CoV−2 Spike protein Mean (SD; ±95%CI) |
Patients not expressing the SARS‐CoV−2 Spike protein Mean (SD; ±95%CI) |
P‐value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 14 | 10 | ‐ | 10 | 14 | ‐ | |
| Maximum cell diameter (mm) | 18.460 (6.30; ±1.69) | 23.531 (7.95; ±2.55) | 0.001* | 18.900 (6.92; ±2.22) | 21.768 (7.62; ±2.04) | 0.104 | |
| Maximum perpendicular to maximum cell diameter (mm) | 16.983 (6.16; ±1.60) | 20.210 (7.18; ±2.3) | 0.018* | 16.392 (6.16; ±1.97) | 19.710 (6.88; ±1.85) | 0.015* | |
| Maximum nuclear diameter (mm) | 2.763 (654,21; ±0.26) | 3.267 (1.17; ±0.37) | 0.032* | 2.779 (891,4; ±0.28) | 3.112 (1.17; ±0.32) | 0.123 | |
| Maximum perpendicular to maximum nuclear diameter(mm) | 2.679 (935,2; ±0.25) | 3.120 (1.00; ±0.33) | 0.025* | 2.695 (920,5; ±0.29) | 2.983 (1.01; ±0.27) | 0.109 | |
*
statistically significant (p<0.05);SD‐ standard deviation; 95%CI ‐ Confidence Interval 95%Legends to Figures.