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ArticleVirology journal2020

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

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Article in Virology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Wesley FreppelInstitut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada.
Natacha MerindolDépartement de chimie, biochimie et physique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada.
Fabien RalluMicrobiology Department, Sainte-Justine Mother and Child University Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Marco BergevinDépartement de biologie médicale Hôpital Cité-de-la-Santé, Laval, QC, H7M 3L9, Canada. marco-andres.bergevin.med@ssss.gouv.qc.ca.
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine · CAInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique · CAUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe 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 scale. To answer this need, we studied SARS-CoV-2 detection in oro-nasopharyngeal (ONP) swabs stored in Universal Transport Media (UTM) or in RNase-free water by rRT-PCR with Seegene Allplex™ 2019-nCoV assay without RNA extraction.

resultsOptimal results were obtained when swabs stored in UTM were diluted 1/5 and 1/2 in RNase-free water. Thermal lysis before rRT-PCR testing slightly improved detection rate. In addition, proteinase K (PK) treatment allowed for a significant reduction of invalid results and increased sensitivity for detection of low viral load specimens. In a panel of positive samples with all 3 viral genes amplified and N gene Cycle threshold values (C

conclusionWe successfully optimized the unextracted rRT-PCR process using the Seegene Allplex™ 2019-nCoV assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNAs in nasopharyngeal swabs. This improved method offers cost savings and turnaround time advantages compared to automated extraction, with high efficiency of detection that could play an important role in the surveillance of Covid-19.

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansNasopharynxReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRibonucleasesRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Specimen HandlingViral LoadRibonucleasesRNA, ViralCOVID-19DetectionRNArRT-PCRSARS-CoV-2

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PMID33339539
PMCPMC7746916
OpenAlexW3112288555

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