{"id":41642,"date":"2021-04-29T06:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=41642"},"modified":"2021-04-29T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:05:33","slug":"which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct-with-reference-to-the-ct-value-in-rt-pcr-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct-with-reference-to-the-ct-value-in-rt-pcr-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the \u2018Ct value\u2019 in RT-PCR tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the \u2018Ct value\u2019 in RT-PCR tests?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A. It is the gold standard for detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B. It is the number of cycles at which fluorescence of the PCR product is detectable over and above the background signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C. Both A &amp; B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D. None of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Among various scientific terms that the Covid-19 pandemic has made part of the public vocabulary, one is the \u2018Ct value\u2019 in RT-PCR tests for determining whether a patient is positive for Covid-19. Short for cycle threshold, Ct is a value that emerges during RT-PCR tests, the gold standard for detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The Ct value refers to the number of cycles after which the virus can be detected. If a higher number of cycles is required, it implies that the virus went undetected when the number of cycles was lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the \u2018Ct value\u2019 in RT-PCR tests? A. It is the gold standard for detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. B. It is the number of cycles at which fluorescence of the PCR product is detectable over and above the background signal. C. Both A &amp; B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":41633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1404],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-41642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-quiz-april-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41643,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41642\/revisions\/41643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41642"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=41642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}