ArticleJournal of clinical pathology2022
Extended storage of SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs does not negatively impact results of molecular-based testing across three clinical platforms.
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- A pandemic guided by the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test: What should the clinician know?South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Nasal Cavity and Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for SARS-CoV-2 Detection via Rapid Antigen Test According to Specimen Collection Timing and Viral Load.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 RNA stability in dry swabs for longer storage and transport at different temperatures.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants by Abbott molecular, antigen, and serological tests.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2022Article
- Duration of respiratory sample stability at -80ºC for SARS-CoV-2 PCR.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2022Article
- Survival and detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants on dry swabs post storage.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Mater Artium Necessitas: The Birth of a COVID-19 Command Center.Academic pathologyArticle
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Abstract
With the global outbreak of COVID-19, the demand for testing rapidly increased and quickly exceeded the testing capacities of many laboratories. Clinical tests which receive CE (Conformité Européenne) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorisations cannot always be tested thoroughly in a real-world environment. Here we demonstrate the long-term stability of nasopharyngeal swab specimens for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing across three assays recently approved by the US FDA under Emergency Use Authorization. This study demonstrates that nasopharyngeal swab specimens can be stored under refrigeration or even ambient conditions for 21 days without clinically impacting the results of the real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR testing.
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