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Editorial
. 2020 May-Jun:35:101743.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101743. Epub 2020 May 15.

Testing Dilemmas: Post negative, positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR - is it a reinfection?

Carlos A Alvarez-Moreno  1 , Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales  2
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Editorial

Testing Dilemmas: Post negative, positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR - is it a reinfection?

Carlos A Alvarez-Moreno et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 May-Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Diagnostic; Infectivity; RT-PCR; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of competing interest None.

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