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. 2020 Oct:131:104612.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104612. Epub 2020 Aug 25.

Another false-positive problem for a SARS-CoV-2 antigen test in Japan

Taku Ogawa  1 , Tatsuya Fukumori  2 , Yuji Nishihara  2 , Takahiro Sekine  2 , Nao Okuda  2 , Tomoko Nishimura  2 , Hiroyuki Fujikura  2 , Nobuyasu Hirai  2 , Natsuko Imakita  2 , Kei Kasahara  2
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Another false-positive problem for a SARS-CoV-2 antigen test in Japan

Taku Ogawa et al. J Clin Virol. 2020 Oct.
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