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Comment
. 2022 Sep:154:105241.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2022.105241. Epub 2022 Jul 11.

Letter of concern on evaluating the consistency between two clinical COVID-19 diagnostic methods

Ming Li  1 , Tianfei Yu  2
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Comment

Letter of concern on evaluating the consistency between two clinical COVID-19 diagnostic methods

Ming Li et al. J Clin Virol. 2022 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Agreement; Cohen's kappa; Polymerase chain reaction; RT-LAMP; SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19.

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