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 Volume 9, Issue 12 (December 2022), Pages: 53-56

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 Technical Note

 Detection of COVID-19 in diagnostic tests carried out on patients

 Author(s): Milagros Vicuña-Ramirez *, Humberto Cadenas-Correa, Rosario Garay-Quispe, Angella Bautista-Galindo, Carolina Cucho-Espinoza

 Affiliation(s):

 Clinical Pathology, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-3016

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.12.007

 Abstract:

Diagnostic tests to detect the coronavirus allow the identification of the virus in addition to the antibodies generated by the body of the person who has previously been infected, so the objective of the research is to detect COVID-19 in diagnostic tests carried out in patients. It is a quantitative, descriptive experimental cross-sectional study, which was carried out with a total population of 560 patients from hospital centers. In its results, we observed that 83.4% (n=467) of patients were non-reactive to the Antigen Test and 66.8% (n=374) of patients were negative in the PCR test. In conclusion, the strengths of the COVID-19 detection tests should be complemented since it allows for an accurate and timely diagnosis of patients.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Public health, Coronavirus, Pandemic, Diagnosis, Diagnostic errors, Patients

 Article History: Received 6 May 2022, Received in revised form 17 August 2022, Accepted 19 August 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Vicuña-Ramirez M, Cadenas-Correa H, Garay-Quispe R, Bautista-Galindo A, and Cucho-Espinoza C (2022). Detection of COVID-19 in diagnostic tests carried out on patients. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(12): 53-56

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