Response to letter of concern by Oladimeji and Pickford of PrimerDesign

Affiliations

¹ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Center for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
² National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Center for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. Electronic address: adam.meijer@rivm.nl.

Comment

Puck B van Kasteren et al. J Clin Virol. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug:129:104526.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104526. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

¹ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Center for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
² National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Center for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. Electronic address: adam.meijer@rivm.nl.

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Conflict of interest statement

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Letter of concern re: "Comparison of seven commercial RT-PCR diagnostic kits for COVID-19" van Kasteren et al., Journal of Clinical Virology.
Oladimeji P, Pickford J. Oladimeji P, et al. J Clin Virol. 2020 Sep;130:104536. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104536. Epub 2020 Jul 6. J Clin Virol. 2020. PMID: 32745967 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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