Leveraging polymerase chain reaction technique (GeneXpert) to upscaling testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in Nigeria: a game changer

Pan Afr Med J. 2020 Apr 21;35(Suppl 2):8. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.35.2.22693. eCollection 2020.

Olanrewaju Oladimeji^{1

2

3}, Bamidele Paul Atiba⁴, Daniel Adedayo Adeyinka^{5

6}

¹ Center for Community Healthcare, Research and Development, Nigeria.
² Department of Public Health, Walter Sisulu University, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
³ Faculty of Health Sciences, Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
⁴ Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁶ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5, Canada.

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Keywords: COVID-19; GeneXpert; Nigeria; Polymerase chain reaction; SARS-CoV-2.

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