Efficient SARS-CoV-2 detection in unextracted oro-nasopharyngeal specimens by rRT-PCR with the Seegene Allplex™ 2019-nCoV assay

Abstract Background The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need to rapidly detect infected people. The challenge for clinical laboratories has been finding a high throughput, cost-efficient, and accurate testing method in the context of extraction reagents shortage on a global...

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Main Authors: Wesley Freppel, Natacha Merindol, Fabien Rallu, Marco Bergevin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:Virology Journal
Subjects:
RNA
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-020-01468-x