del Valle-Mendoza, Juana
Tarazona-Castro, Yordi
Merino-Luna, Alfredo
Carrillo-Ng, Hugo
Kym, Sungmin
Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel
del Valle, Luis J.
Aquino-Ortega, Ronald
Martins-Luna, Johanna
Peña-Tuesta, Isaac
Silva-Caso, Wilmer
Funding for this research was provided by:
Incentives for Research of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Nº UPC-A-069-2021)
Bio & Medical TechnologyDevelopment Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (Nº 2016M3A9B8942289)
Article History
Received: 22 February 2021
Accepted: 17 January 2022
First Online: 28 January 2022
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Board of the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru (N° 395-2020/CIEI-IIN). The samples were obtained in the context of the epidemiological/syndromic surveillance program according to the health directives of the National Center for Epidemiology, Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Peru. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulation. All the subjects signed a written informed consent for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal samples and allowed the use of the samples for other procedures.
: Not applicable.
: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there are no conflicts of interest or funding related to this study.