Hueda-Zavaleta, Miguel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8049-7787
Copaja-Corzo, Cesar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3497-0158
Benites-Zapata, Vicente A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9158-1108
Cardenas-Rueda, Pedro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9391-1027
Maguiña, Jorge L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-7795
Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192
Article History
Received: 16 November 2021
Accepted: 1 March 2022
First Online: 14 March 2022
Declarations
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: This study was evaluated and approved by the institutional research ethics committee of the Private University of Tacna (Registration Code: 045-FACSA-UI) and by the research committees of the Hospitals: Daniel Alcides Carrión EsSalud-Tacna and Hipólito Unanue-Tacna. Likewise, it was entered with code EI00000001461 to the national registry of Health Research Projects (PRISA) developed by the National Institute of Health of Peru (INS-Peru). Informed consent was requested from all patients who participated in the research, providing their nasopharyngeal swab samples for RT-PCR analysis.
: It is not applicable because the manuscript does not contain anyone's individual data.
: Rodriguez-Morales, report being medical advisor of Abbott Diagnostics for Latin America, outside the submitted work. The rest of the authors declare no conflict of interest.