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. 2021 Jun;82(6):276-316.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.02.025. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Use of lateral flow devices allows rapid triage of patients with SARS-CoV-2 on admission to hospital

Bernadette C Young  1 , David W Eyre  2 , Katie Jeffery  3
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Use of lateral flow devices allows rapid triage of patients with SARS-CoV-2 on admission to hospital

Bernadette C Young et al. J Infect. 2021 Jun.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Infection control; Point-of-care testing.

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Declaration of Competing Interest DWE declares lecture fees from Gilead outside the submitted work. No other authors have a conflict to declare

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Lateral flow device (LFD) results and Mean Cycle threshold (Ct) value of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) target detection in 214 patients with SARS-CoV-2 detected. The median (central line), inter-quartile range (box) and range (whiskers) of Ct values are shown.
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