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Amplicon contamination in labs masquerades as COVID19 in surveillance tests

2020-12-15

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A cohort of laboratorians with positive SARS-CoV2 test results were uncovered during asymptomatic COVID-19 screening programs at six universities. Follow-up PCR and antibody tests showed that most of these cases were not true COVID-19 infection but instead arose from reverse-transcribed and amplified viral sequences (amplicons) that are generated during research. Environmental testing showed widespread contaminati...

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Literature Corpus work: e1deffd7-15fa-5539-8940-9e5f7a7c959d
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.08.20244525

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