Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1204-1206 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Clinical Microbiology and Infection |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The first author (EY) thanks his colleagues from the Outbreak Management Team (especially Dr Jeanne Koeijers and Dr Esther Rooijakkers) and the Board of Directors of Curacao Medical Centre, Dr Annette Stemerding, Dr Peter Croughs (clinical microbiologists), Dr Diederik van de Wetering (infectiologist), Dr Vanessa Brown (coordinator of the Emergency Department), Mrs. Liane Virginia-Cova PhD (lab director), head technicians (Ceritsha and Marjella), laboratory technologists from the bacteriology and molecular diagnostics labs, and the doctors and nurses, especially from the Emergency Department, for agreeing to initiate and implementing the COVID-19 rapid diagnostic antigen test to face the problem of limited numbers of rapid PCR tests during the highest COVID-19 peak so far in Curacao (first week of April 2021).