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Diagnostics (Basel) ; 12(2)2022 Feb 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1686635

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Rising SARS-CoV-2 cases, testing delays, and the risk of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission provided the impetus for an in-house rapid testing program. Employees and their household contacts were encouraged to self-collect saliva samples that were pooled for routine testing using an established colorimetric reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay. In brief, individual or a maximum of four saliva samples were pooled and heat-inactivated to render microorganisms, especially SARS-CoV-2, non-infectious prior to being added to RT-LAMP assay tubes containing either the human sample control gene, RNase P, or a region of the SARS-CoV-2 gene, ORF1ab. During the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in November 2020, two samples from an employee and a member of their household tested positive via RT-LAMP within two days of each other. A delayed clinical qRT-PCR test confirmation of both individuals 5 days later underscored the power of routine rapid testing with within-the-hour turnaround times. Workplace rapid testing programs using RT-LAMP are flexible in their design, have a reduced cost compared to qRT-PCR, may involve non-invasive self-saliva collection for increased safety for the testing personnel, and can be performed with minimal training.

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