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When Should Asymptomatic Persons Be Tested for COVID-19?

Audrey N. Schuetz, Peera Hemarajata, Ninad Mehta, Sheldon Campbell, Stephanie Mitchell, Elizabeth Palavecino, Susan Butler-Wu, Melissa B. Miller
Alexander J. McAdam, Editor
Audrey N. Schuetz
aDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Peera Hemarajata
bPublic Health Laboratories, LA County Department of Public Health, Downey, California, USA
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Ninad Mehta
cDepartment of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Sheldon Campbell
dDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
ePathology and Laboratory Medicine, VA Connecticut Health Care, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Stephanie Mitchell
fDepartment of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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gDepartment of Pathology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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hDepartment of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA
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iDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02563-20
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Audrey N. Schuetz, Peera Hemarajata, Ninad Mehta, Sheldon Campbell, Stephanie Mitchell, Elizabeth Palavecino, Susan Butler-Wu, Melissa B. Miller
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Dec 2020, 59 (1) e02563-20; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02563-20

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When Should Asymptomatic Persons Be Tested for COVID-19?
Audrey N. Schuetz, Peera Hemarajata, Ninad Mehta, Sheldon Campbell, Stephanie Mitchell, Elizabeth Palavecino, Susan Butler-Wu, Melissa B. Miller
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Dec 2020, 59 (1) e02563-20; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02563-20
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asymptomatic testing
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