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. 2020 Dec 21;8(3):398-399.
doi: 10.1515/dx-2020-0135. Print 2021 Aug 26.

Usability of non-medicinal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection to circumvent supply shortages

Günter Dollenmaier  1 , Remo Würth  1 , Esther Laternser  1 , Salome N Seiffert  1 , Wolfgang Korte  1 , Oliver Nolte  1
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Usability of non-medicinal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection to circumvent supply shortages

Günter Dollenmaier et al. Diagnosis (Berl). .
No abstract available

Keywords: PCR; SARS-CoV-2; pre-analytics; swabs.

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