COVID-19 Testing in South Korea: Current Status and the Need for Faster Diagnostics
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- 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- 3GC Genome, Yongin, Korea
- 4Department of Laboratory Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- KMID: 2502564
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2020.40.5.349
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