A prospective diagnostic evaluation of accuracy of self-taken and healthcare worker-taken swabs for rapid COVID-19 testing

BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) developed for point of care detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen are recommended by WHO to use trained health care workers to collect samples. We hypothesised that self-taken samples are non-inferior for use with RDTs to diagnose COVID-19. We designed a prospecti...

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Autores principales: Savage, Helen R., Finch, Lorna, Body, Richard, Watkins, Rachel L., Hayward, Gail, Cook, Eloïse, Cubas-Atienzar, Ana I., Cuevas, Luis E., MacPherson, Peter, Adams, Emily R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35771760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270715

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35771760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270715

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