Complementary methods for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis in times of material shortage.
Sci Rep
; 11(1): 11899, 2021 06 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1260951
ABSTRACT
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 resulted in increasing demands for diagnostic tests, leading to a shortage of recommended testing materials and reagents. This study reports on the performance of self-sampled alternative swabbing material (ordinary Q-tips tested against flocked swab and rayon swab), of reagents for classical RNA extraction (phenol/guanidine-based protocol against a commercial kit), and of intercalating dye-based one-step quantitative reverse transcription real-time PCRs (RT-qPCR) compared against the gold standard hydrolysis probe-based assays for SARS-CoV-2 detection. The study found sampling with Q-tips, RNA extraction with classical protocol and intercalating dye-based RT-qPCR as a reliable and comparably sensitive strategy for detection of SARS-CoV-2-particularly valuable in the current period with a resurgent and dramatic increase in SARS-CoV-2 infections and growing shortage of diagnostic materials especially for regions limited in resources.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Specimen Handling
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RNA, Viral
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COVID-19 Testing
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Rep
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S41598-021-91457-z
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