Article
Overhauling a faulty control in the CDC-recommended SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test panel
2020-06-13
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> To battle the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread testing for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is worldwide being employed by specific real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) of viral RNA. The CDC has issued a recommended panel of PCR-based test sets that entail several primer/probe sets that target the SARS-CoV-2 N-gene, but also one that targets the human RNase P gene (h-RP) as a positive control for RNA ext...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 03efcb99-0fb2-5a35-8eed-04a0ea0a1849
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.12.147819
