Validation of new equipment for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis in Ecuador: Detection of the virus and antibodies generated by disease and vaccines with one POC device

• Stephany D. Villota,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Bienestar. Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador – UNIB.E, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3250-6589

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• Eliana Veloz-Villavicencio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y la Agricultura, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2234-2055

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• Santiago Garcia-Iturralde,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Escuela de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

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• Johanna Valentina Arévalo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

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• Suying Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Katariina Jaenes,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Yuxiu Guo,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada

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• Seray Cicek,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada

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• Karen Colwill,

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

  Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8979-1659

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• Anne-Claude Gingras,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Rod Bremner,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Patricio Ponce,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

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• Keith Pardee,

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

  Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Varsovia Enid Cevallos

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

  * E-mail: vcevallos@inspi.gob.ec

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8666-1536

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