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Evaluation of performance of two SARS-CoV-2 Rapid whole-blood finger-stick IgM-IgGCombined Antibody Tests

2020-05-27 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe SARS-CoV-2 virus is responsible for the infectious respiratory disease called COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease). In response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) have been developed to detect specific antibodies, IgG and IgM, to SARS-CoV-2 virus in human whole blood. We conducted a real-life study to evaluate the performance of two RDTs, COVID-PRESTO(R) and COVID-DUO(R), compared to the gold standard, RT-PCR. MethodsRT-PCR testing of SARS-Cov-2 was performe...

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