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A Case Report of a COVID-19 Infection with Positive Sputum and Negative Nasopharyngeal Rapid Antigen-Based Testing: A Practical Method to Explore Sputome
2023-01-29
Abstract excerpt
Current COVID-19 antigen testing is primarily carried out by obtaining a specimen via nasopharyngeal swab and performing a rapid lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) or related immunoassays. On average, a nasopharyngeal antigen-based LFIA for COVID-19 remains positive for approximately one week from symptom onset, and levels of infectivity and duration of the symptoms may depend primarily on carrying a high viral load...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c8da89c3-84e1-5a68-a13a-15229e60b80d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.26.23285052
