{"id":1358,"date":"2020-12-03T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:55:42","slug":"a-good-indicator-for-determining-covid-19-and-influenza-a-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/a-good-indicator-for-determining-covid-19-and-influenza-a-b\/","title":{"rendered":"A good Indicator for determining covid-19 and influenza A\/B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initial symptoms of covid-19 and influenza are very similar.<br \/>\nIs RT-PCR or antibody testing the only way to distinguish between these two infections?<\/p>\n<p>Sapienza Univ. of Rome&#8217;s group has reported that the absolute count of monocytes, a type of leukocyte, is a good discriminating index between the two.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infezmed.it\/media\/journal\/Vol_28_4_2020_9.pdf\">https:\/\/www.infezmed.it\/media\/journal\/Vol_28_4_2020_9.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the absolute count of monocytes is 0.35&#215;10^3\/mL or more, COVID-19 can be distinguished from influenza A\/B. AUC=0.68 (sensitivity=0.992, specificity=0.368)<\/p>\n<p>This strongly suggests that covid-19 and influenza A\/B have different immune responses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monocytes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monocytes-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monocytes-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monocytes-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monocytes-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial symptoms of covid-19 and influenza are very similar. Is RT-PCR or antibody testing the only way to<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/a-good-indicator-for-determining-covid-19-and-influenza-a-b\/\" class=\"home-blog-btn\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}