SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing in Africa: needs and challenges

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
² Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Oyo State, Nigeria.
³ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Public Health, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi et al. Pan Afr Med J. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 14;35(Suppl 2):4.

doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.35.4.22703. eCollection 2020.

¹ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
² Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Oyo State, Nigeria.
³ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Public Health, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

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Keywords: 2019-nCoV; Africa; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; diagnostic testing; global health; pandemic.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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