Field evaluation of the performance of seven Antigen Rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of SARs-CoV-2 virus infection in Uganda

• Josephine Bwogi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine Bwogi, Tom Lutalo

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: josephinebwn12@gmail.com

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6975-7106

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• Tom Lutalo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine Bwogi, Tom Lutalo

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

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Phionah Tushabe,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0729-5505

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• Henry Bukenya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• James Peter Eliku,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Isaac Ssewanyana,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratories, Kampala, Uganda

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• Susan Nabadda,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratories, Kampala, Uganda

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• Christopher Nsereko,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Matthew Cotten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Robert Downing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Julius Lutwama,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Pontiano Kaleebu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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• EPI Laboratory team ,

  ¶Membership of the EPI Laboratory team and Membership of the UVRI COVID-19 Technical Team are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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• UVRI -COVID 19 Technical team

  ¶Membership of the EPI Laboratory team and Membership of the UVRI COVID-19 Technical Team are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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