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Field evaluation of specificity and sensitivity of a standard SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic test: A prospective study at a teaching hospital in Northern Ghana

The testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 in Africa is rather limited. Antigen detection rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) are a cheap and rapid alternative to reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests, but there is little data about their performance under real life conditions in trop...

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Autores principales:	Abdul-Mumin, Alhassan, Abubakari, Abdulai, Agbozo, Faith, Abdul-Karim, Abass, Nuertey, Benjamin Demah, Mumuni, Kareem, Heuschen, Anna-Katharina, Hennig, Lisa, Denkinger, Claudia M., Müller, Olaf, Jahn, Albrecht
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000040

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