Evaluating diagnostic accuracies of Panbio^™ test and RT-PCR for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using Bayesian Latent-Class Models (BLCM)

• Abay Sisay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abay Sisay, Sonja Hartnack

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

  * E-mail: abusis27@gmail.com, abay.sisay@aau.edu.et

  Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-1868

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• Sonja Hartnack ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abay Sisay, Sonja Hartnack

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Abebaw Tiruneh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Public Health Research and Emergency Management Laboratory, Addis Ababa Health Bureau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Yasin Desalegn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Addis Ababa Public Health Research and Emergency Management Laboratory, Addis Ababa Health Bureau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Abraham Tesfaye,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Diagnostic Unit, Center for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa, CDT-Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Adey Feleke Desta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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