Long-term validation of a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 from March 2020 to October 2021 in Central Africa, Gabon

• Haruka Abe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Yuri Ushijima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Rodrigue Bikangui,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Georgelin Nguema Ondo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Ayong Moure,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Yoric Yali-Assy-Oyamli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Rokusuke Yoshikawa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (CCPID), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Bertrand Lell,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Ayola A. Adegnika,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tübingen, Germany

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• Jiro Yasuda

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j-yasuda@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (CCPID), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-5621

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