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letter . 2020 Apr 13:hvaa099. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa099
Limits of Detection of Six Approved RT–PCR Kits for the Novel SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Xueliang Wang
h1,#, Hangping Yao
h2,#, Xing Xu
h1, Pengyin Zhang
h1, Minmin Zhang
h1, Junbin Shao
h2, Yanqun Xiao
h1, Hualiang Wang
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Xueliang Wang
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Hangping Yao
h2State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases and National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China
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Xing Xu
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Pengyin Zhang
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Minmin Zhang
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Junbin Shao
h2State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases and National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China
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Yanqun Xiao
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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Hualiang Wang
h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
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h1Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai, China
h2State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases and National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China
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Xueliang Wang, Hangping Yao; these authors contributed equally to this work
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Corresponding author: Hualiang Wang, Department of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Centre for Clinical Laboratory, 528 Hongshan Road, Pudong, Shanghai 200126, China. Tel: +86 21 68316300. Fax: +86 21 68318311, e-mail: wanghualiang@sccl.org.cn.
Received 2020 Mar 21; Revised 2020 Apr 7; Accepted 2020 Apr 9.
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