Parallel detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and nucleocapsid antigen in nasopharyngeal specimens from a COVID-19 patient screening cohort

Objectives: Reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) is considered the most sensitive method for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, this method is relatively resource- and time-consuming. This study was performed to compare SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid...

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Main Authors: Nikolay Mayanskiy, Ekaterina Brzhozovskaya, Natalia Fedorova, Yuri Lebedin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
RNA
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221004860