"Pooled Specimen Testing on Directly Lysed Nasopharyngeal Specimens to Expand COVID-19 Screening Capacity in a Limited-Resource Setting"
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چکیده
Coronavirus disease - 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) first emerged in December Wuhan, China [1]. The novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, is a member of the human (HCoV) family that cause tract infections [2].
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Journal of Scientific and Technical Research
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2574-1241']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26717/bjstr.2022.47.007506