Measuring diagnostic performance of COVID-19 tests: lessons for the next pandemic

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Jacob Moran-Gilad. Euro Surveill. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;26(45):2101050.

doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.45.2101050.

¹ School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

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