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. 2020 May 26;323(20):2085-2086.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.6266.

Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens

David Kim  1 , James Quinn  1 , Benjamin Pinsky  2 , Nigam H Shah  3 , Ian Brown  1
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Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens

David Kim et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study describes the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection with noncoronavirus respiratory pathogens in a sample of symptomatic patients undergoing PCR testing in March 2020.

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