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The role of testing in the fight against COVID-19: Current happenings in Africa and the way forward

The dramatic increase in suspected COVID-19 cases in Africa has placed an enormous burden on public and private clinical facilities. To date, the most commonly used method for identifying and confirming the virus is the laboratory-based reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test....

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Autores principales:	Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Hagan, John Elvis, Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Schack, Thomas
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
Materias:	Perspective
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32619756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.089

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