National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Covid19 is an infectious disease caused by SARS -COV2, the novel corona virus. This correlation study is done in patients who had complaints of fever, myaligia, cough and dyspnea within 1 week duration, by taking their Complete blood count using a Hematological Auto analyser. Their Eosinophil levels are noted and those with low eosinophil count of less than 1% are subjected to RTPCR test for SARS COV2 using Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal swab and CT CHEST is done. Positive predictive value of 78% was observed for RTPCR in those with low Eosinophil count. CT CHEST showed CORADS of greater than 4 in all of them with low Eosinophil count and a opacity score of >16/25 was observed in those with extremely low eosinophil count of 0.0 to 0.3% and a opacity score of 8/25 to 15/25 was observed in those with eosinophil count of 0.4 to 0.7% and a CT score of <8/25 was found in those with eosinophil count of 0.8 to 0.9%. This study highlights the significance of CBC test which is easily accessible, fast and very much economical, can be used as a primitive tool to find covid19 infection in remote areas which don't have immediate access to RTPCR and CT CHEST and also a reliable tool to predict the prognosis of the disease.
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