An alternative workflow for molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 - escape from the NA extraction kit-shortage, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 caused by the newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic. Due to growing demand for reagents and/or kits to extract SARS-CoV-2 RNA for subsequent RT-qPCR diagnostics, there is a worldwide risk of shortages. With a detection sensitivity of 97.4% (95% CI: 86.2-99.9%), we describe a simple, fast, alternative workflow for molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2, where samples are simply heat-processed for 5 min at 98 °C before a commonly-used RT-qPCR procedure.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 25(2020), 14 vom: 12. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fomsgaard, Anna S [VerfasserIn]
Rosenstierne, Maiken Worsøe [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Molecular diagnostics
RNA, Viral
RT-qPCR
SARS-CoV-2

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.04.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.14.2000398

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Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM308758978