Diagnostic performance of molecular and serological tests of SARS-CoV-2 on well-characterised specimens from COVID-19 individuals: The EDCTP "PERFECT-study" protocol (RIA2020EF-3000)

• Joseph Fokam ,

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

  * E-mail: josephfokam@gmail.com

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, National Public Health Emergency Operations Coordination Centre (NPHEOCC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS), University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-2763

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• Claudia Alteri,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Milan, Milan, Italy, AVIRALIA Foundation Onlus, Rome, Italy

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• Luna Colagrossi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Anne-Marie Genevieve,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Association de Recherche en Virologie et Dermatologie (ARVD), Paris, France

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• Désiré Takou,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Alexis Ndjolo,

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

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS), University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon

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• Vittorio Colizzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, Evangelical University of Cameroon, Bandjoun, Cameroon

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• Nicaise Ndembi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicaise Ndembi, Carlo-Federico Perno

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

  Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Abbis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Carlo-Federico Perno

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicaise Ndembi, Carlo-Federico Perno

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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