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How accurate is self-testing?
The UK has embarked on a programme of self-testing for coronavirus, but can swabs taken at home be trusted? Michael Brooks reports
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32501335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(20)30909-X |
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spelling | pubmed-72551852020-05-28 How accurate is self-testing? Brooks, Michael New Sci News & Technology The UK has embarked on a programme of self-testing for coronavirus, but can swabs taken at home be trusted? Michael Brooks reports Published by New Scientist Limited. 2020-05-16 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7255185/ /pubmed/32501335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(20)30909-X Text en © 2020 Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | News & Technology Brooks, Michael How accurate is self-testing? |
title | How accurate is self-testing? |
title_full | How accurate is self-testing? |
title_fullStr | How accurate is self-testing? |
title_full_unstemmed | How accurate is self-testing? |
title_short | How accurate is self-testing? |
title_sort | how accurate is self-testing? |
topic | News & Technology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32501335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(20)30909-X |
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