COVID-19 Carrier or Pneumonia: Positive Real-Time Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction but Negative or Positive Chest CT Results

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Pinggui Lei (Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University) ;
Bing Fan (Department of Radiology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital) ;
Yipeng Sun (InferVision)

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