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What is the prevalence of COVID-19 detection by PCR among deceased individuals in Lusaka, Zambia? A postmortem surveillance study

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of COVID-19 postmortem setting in Lusaka, Zambia. DESIGN: A systematic, postmortem prevalence study. SETTING: A busy, inner-city morgue in Lusaka. PARTICIPANTS: We sampled a random subset of all decedents who transited the University Teaching Hospital morgue....

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Autores principales: Gill, Christopher J, Mwananyanda, Lawrence, MacLeod, William B, Kwenda, Geoffrey, Pieciak, Rachel C, Etter, Lauren, Bridges, Daniel, Chikoti, Chilufya, Chirwa, Sarah, Chimoga, Charles, Forman, Leah, Katowa, Ben, Lapidot, Rotem, Lungu, James, Matoba, Japhet, Mwinga, Gift, Mubemba, Benjamin, Mupila, Zachariah, Muleya, Walter, Mwenda, Mulenga, Ngoma, Benard, Nakazwe, Ruth, Nzara, Diana, Pawlak, Natalie, Pemba, Lillian, Saasa, Ngonda, Simulundu, Edgar, Yankonde, Baron, Thea, Donald M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9729848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36600354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066763