Scientific study
Scientific Reports
2020
Assessment of the direct quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 by droplet digital PCR
Michela Deiana, Antonio Mori, Chiara Piubelli, Salvatore Scarso, Mosè Favarato, Elena Pomari
Scientific study
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
2021
Evaluation of the BioFire® COVID-19 test and Respiratory Panel 2.1 for rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swab samples
Eric J.Eckbo
Scientific study
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
2021
Practical strategies for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing in resource-constrained settings
Meredith S. Muller et al.
Scientific study
medRxiv
2021
Safe and effective pool testing 1 for SARS-CoV-2 detection
Marie Wunsch et al.
Scientific study
JAMA Ophthalmology
2021
SARS-CoV-2 on Ocular Surfaces in a Cohort of Patients With COVID-19 From the Lombardy Region, Italy
Claudio Azzolini
Scientific study
Infection
2021
Self‑sampling versus health care professional‑guided swab collection for SARS‑CoV‑2 testing
Silvia Würstle
Scientific study
Journal of Clinical Virology
2021
Performance of the RT-LAMP-based eazyplex® SARS-CoV-2 as a novel rapid diagnostic test
Renate Egerer
Scientific study
Emerging Infectious Diseases
2021
Postmortem Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Mucosa
Fabian Heinrich
Scientific study
BMC Microbiology
2021
Combined oropharyngeal/nasal swab is equivalent to nasopharyngeal sampling for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic PCR
Tania Desmet
Scientific study
GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
2021
Comparison of pre-analytical characteristics for molecular and serological diagnostics of COVID-19
Ralph Wendt
Scientific study
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
2021
Clinical performance of the Abbott Panbio with nasopharyngeal, throat, and saliva swabs among symptomatic individuals with COVID-19
William Stokes
Scientific study
Frontiers in Microbiology
2021
Detection of Microbial Agents in Oropharyngeal and Nasopharyngeal Samples of SARS-CoV-2 Patients
Tyler Seckar
Scientific study
Emerging Infectious Diseases
2020
Pooling Upper Respiratory Specimens for Rapid Mass Screening of COVID-19 by Real-Time RT-PCR
So Yeon Kim
Scientific study
PLoS One
2020
SARS-CoV-2 detection in setting of viral swabs scarcity: Are MRSA swabs and viral swabs equivalent?
Daniel G. Federman , Shaili Gupta,Gary Stack, Sheldon M. Campbell, David R. Peaper, Louise M. Dembry, Ann Fisher, Asim F. Tarabar, Michael Kozal, Christopher B. Ruser
Scientific study
Preprint status
2020
Robust and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 using PCR based methods
Changwoo Park
Scientific study
The Lancet Microbe
2021
Comparison of seven commercial SARS-CoV-2 rapid point-of-care antigen tests: a single-centre laboratory evaluation study
Victor M Corman, Verena Claudia Haage, Tobias Bleicker, Marie Luisa Schmidt, Barbara Mühlemann, Marta Zuchowski, Wendy K Jo, Patricia Tscheak, Elisabeth Möncke-Buchner, Marcel A Müller, Andi Krumbholz, Prof Jan Felix Drexler, Prof Christian Drosten
Scientific study
Journal of Clinical Virology
2021
Evaluation of an antigen-based test for hospital point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Gabriele Bianco, Matteo Boattini, Anna Maria Barbui, Gitana Scozzari, Franco Riccardini, Maurizio Coggiola, Enrico Lupia, Rossana Cavallo, Cristina Costa
Scientific study
Virology Journal
2020
Efficient SARS-CoV-2 detection in unextracted oro-nasopharyngeal specimens by rRT-PCR with the Seegene Allplex™ 2019-nCoV assay
Wesley Freppel, Natacha Merindol, Fabien Rallu, Marco Bergevin
Scientific study
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2020
Clinical Evaluation of the cobas SARS-CoV-2 Test and a Diagnostic Platform Switch during 48 Hours in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mario Poljak, Miša Korva, Nataša Knap Gašper, Kristina Fujs Komloš, Martin Sagadin, Tina Uršič, Tatjana Avšič Županc, Miroslav Petrovec
Scientific study
Clinical Microbiology and infection
2020
Saliva collected in universal transport media is an effective, simple and high-volume amenable method to detect SARS-CoV-2
Byron M. Berenger, John M. Conly, Kevin Fonseca, Jia Hu, Thomas Louie, Angela R. Schneider, Takshveer Singh, William Stokes, Linda Ward, Nathan Zelyas
Scientific study
PeerJ
2021
Evaluation of two fluorescence immunoassays for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen—new tool to detect infective COVID-19 patients
Lorena Porte, Paulette Legarraga, Mirentxu Iruretagoyena, Valeska Vollrath, Gabriel Pizarro, Jose Munita, Rafael Araos, Thomas Weitzel
Scientific study
Genomics
2021
ACoRE: Accurate SARS-CoV-2 genome reconstruction for the characterization of intra-host and inter-host viral diversity in clinical samples and for the evaluation of re-infections
Luca Marcolungo, Cristina Beltrami , Chiara Degli Esposti, Giulia Lopatriello, Chiara Piubelli, Antonio Mori, Elena Pomari, Michela Deiana, Salvatore Scarso, Zeno Bisoffi, Valentina Grosso, Emanuela Cosentino, Simone Maestri, Denise Lavezzari, Barbara Iadarola, Marta Paterno, Elena Segala, Barbara Giovannone, Martina Gallinaro, Marzia Rossato, Massimo Delledonne
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Virology Journal
2021
How home anterior self-collected nasal swab simplifies SARS-CoV-2 testing: new surveillance horizons in public health and beyond
Silvia Ricci, Lorenzo Lodi, Francesco Citera, Francesco Nieddu, Maria Moriondo, Valentina Guarnieri, Mattia Giovannini, Giuseppe Indolfi, Massimo Resti, Alberto Zanobini, Chiara Azzari
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Frontiers in Pediatrics
2021
Low Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Symptomatic Patients Attending a Pediatric Emergency Department
Christoph Zurl, Ernst Eber, Anna Siegl, Sabine Loeffler, Evelyn Stelzl, Harald H. Kessler, Markus Egger, Nina A. Schweintzger, Werner Zenz, Volker Strenger
Scientific study
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2020
Evaluation of Transport Media and Specimen Transport Conditions for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by Use of Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR
Amy A. Rogers, Russell E. Baumann, Gwynngelle A. Borillo, Ron M. Kagan, Hollis J. Batterman, Marzena M. Galdzicka, Elizabeth M. Marlowe
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Journal of Hospital Infection
2022