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. 2021 Mar-Apr:40:102002.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102002. Epub 2021 Feb 26.

No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the framework of influenza surveillance between October 2019 and February 2020 in Lombardy, Italy

Federica Giardina  1 , Cristina Galli  2 , Laura Pellegrinelli  2 , Stefania Paolucci  1 , Monica Tallarita  1 , Elena Pariani  2 , Antonio Piralla  3 , Fausto Baldanti  4
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No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the framework of influenza surveillance between October 2019 and February 2020 in Lombardy, Italy

Federica Giardina et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Mar-Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Molecular epidemiology; Pandemic virus; Real-time RT-PCR; Respiratory samples; SARS-CoV-2.

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