The First Quarter of SARS-CoV-2 Testing: the University of Washington Medicine Experience.
J Clin Microbiol
; 58(8)2020 Jul 23.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-999215
ABSTRACT
In early March 2020, the University of Washington Medical Center clinical virology laboratory became one of the first clinical laboratories to offer testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). When we first began test development in mid-January, neither of us believed there would be more than 2 million confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections nationwide or that we would have performed more than 150,000 real-time PCR (RT-PCR) tests, with many more to come. This article will be a chronological summary of how we rapidly validated tests for SARS-CoV-2, increased our testing capacity, and addressed the many problems that came up along the way.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Clinical Laboratory Techniques
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Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Betacoronavirus
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
JCM.01416-20
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