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. 2020 Jul:106:104802.
doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104802. Epub 2020 May 14.

How to increase the SARS-CoV-2 detection rate through the nasopharyngeal swab?

Armando De Virgilio  1 , Andrea Costantino  2 , Giuseppe Mercante  1 , Giuseppe Spriano  1
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How to increase the SARS-CoV-2 detection rate through the nasopharyngeal swab?

Armando De Virgilio et al. Oral Oncol. 2020 Jul.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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