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. 2023 Feb;192(1):227-229.
doi: 10.1007/s11845-022-02961-8. Epub 2022 Mar 7.

Infectious SARS-CoV-2 is rarely present in the nasopharynx samples collected from Swedish hospitalized critically ill COVID-19 patients

Jiaxin Ling  1 , Rachel A Hickman  2   3 , Robert Frithiof  4 , Michael Hultström  4   5 , Josef D Järhult  3 , Åke Lundkvist  2 , Miklos Lipcsey  6   7
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Infectious SARS-CoV-2 is rarely present in the nasopharynx samples collected from Swedish hospitalized critically ill COVID-19 patients

Jiaxin Ling et al. Ir J Med Sci. 2023 Feb.
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qRT-PCR data in patients with and without positive virus cultures of SARS-CoV-2. The lower Ct value from N gene- and E gene-based qPCR examination was plotted for each sample. The Student t test was used for comparing the groups
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