A prospective diagnostic evaluation of accuracy of self-taken and healthcare worker-taken swabs for rapid COVID-19 testing

• Helen R. Savage,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2592-9257

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• Lorna Finch,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Richard Body,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Innovation, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Rachel L. Watkins,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5754-3469

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• LSTM Diagnostics group ,

  ¶Membership of the LSTM Diagnostics group and CONDOR steering group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• CONDOR steering group ,

  ¶Membership of the LSTM Diagnostics group and CONDOR steering group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Innovation, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Gail Hayward,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Eloïse Cook,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Innovation, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Ana I. Cubas-Atienzar,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9604-124X

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• Luis E. Cuevas,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Peter MacPherson,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-9613

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• Emily R. Adams

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Emily.adams@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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