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Comparative Evaluation of Rapid Nucleic Acids Extraction Methods for Biosensor-Based Point-of-Care Solutions.

Maciej Polak, Aldona Wiatrzyk, Katarzyna Krysztopa-Grzybowska, Karolina Sobiecka, Ewa Mosiej, Marta Prygiel, Robert Ziółkowski, Dawid Jańczak, Katarzyna Pancer, Aleksandra Skiba and 1 more

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Article in Biosensors, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Maciej PolakDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
Aldona WiatrzykDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
Katarzyna Krysztopa-GrzybowskaDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
Karolina SobieckaDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
Ewa MosiejDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5513-0775
Marta PrygielDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9856-0767
Robert ZiółkowskiChair of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7225-0904
Dawid JańczakDepartment of Infectious and Invasive Diseases and Veterinary Administration, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0845-0810
Katarzyna PancerDepartment of Virology, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3665-5765
Aleksandra SkibaChair of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland.
Aleksandra Anna ZasadaDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2774-0941

Funding

Medical Research Agency 2024/ABM/03/KPO/ KPOD.07.07-IW.07-0081/24-00NIPH NIH-NRI internal grant number BS 2025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The translation of nucleic acid amplification into practical point-of-care and biosensor-integrated diagnostics is still significantly impeded by the necessity for rapid sample preparation. For this reason, a broad comparison of seven commercially available kits for DNA/RNA extraction containing their temperature-related adjustments was performed. Extracts isolated from SARS-CoV-2-positive nasopharyngeal swabs, viral stocks, as well as laboratory-prepared suspensions of clinically relevant Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria were evaluated by recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and real-time PCR. In addition, the impact of transport media for SARS-CoV-2 samples was investigated. Extraction performance varied markedly according to the kit, pathogen, sample background. For SARS-CoV-2, rapid extraction was more effective for samples collected in viral transport medium than in inactivation buffer. Across bacterial targets, performance was species dependent, highlighting substantial differences in compatibility between simplified extraction workflows and downstream amplification. Among the rapid methods tested, a simplified QuickExtract protocol (95 °C, 5 min) provided the most consistent overall results, although it did not uniformly match the reference silica-based method for all targets. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that rapid nucleic acid extraction must be thoroughly evaluated as an essential element of the entire sample-to-answer workflow, rather than being chosen as a standalone preprocessing step for point-of-care molecular diagnostics.

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Biosensing TechniquesCOVID-19Nucleic AcidsPoint-of-Care SystemsSARS-CoV-2HumansNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesRapid Diagnostic TestsRNA, ViralNucleic AcidsRNA, Viralnucleic acid amplification (NAA) methodsrapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testsrecombinase polymerase amplification (RPA)

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PMCPMC13114158

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