A Difficult Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin.

This is the case of a 15-y-old boy who presented with fever and back pain with MRI features of spondylitis. A CT-guided vertebral biopsy showed acute and chronic inflammatory cells and grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa on aerobic culture. The child was treated for 2 wk with antibiotics with no response.

No correlation between Ct values and severity of disease or mortality in patients with COVID 19 disease.

There are several reports of Ct values of RT PCR assays for COVID 19 being associated with disease severity and infectivity. We studied the correlation between Ct values and disease severity and mortality at our hospital . All patients with RT PCR diagnosed COVID 19 illness admitted at the study site and for whom Ct values were available were included in the study.