Analytical assessment of clinical sensitivity and specificities of pharmaceutical rapid SARS-CoV-2 detection nasopharyngeal swab testing kits in Pakistan

Analytical assessment of clinical sensitivity and specificities of pharmaceutical rapid SARS-CoV-2 detection nasopharyngeal swab testing kits in Pakistan

Abstract Despite of the global unity against COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the lives of human being is still not over. SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has urged the need of rapid viral detection at earliest. To cope with gradually expanding scenario of SARS-CoV-2, accurate diagnosis is...

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Main Authors:	U. Saeed, R. Uppal, A. A. Khan, M. R. Uppal, Z. Z. Piracha, S. R. Uppal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Internacional de Ecologia 2024-03-01
Series:	Brazilian Journal of Biology
Subjects:	SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Pakistan Nasopharyngeal Swab rapid testing
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842024000101101&lng=en&tlng=en

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