Article
Assessment of the use and quick preparation of saliva for rapid microbiological diagnosis of COVID-19
2020-06-29
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to assess the performance of direct real time RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 in heated saliva samples, avoiding the RNA isolation step. Oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swabs together with saliva samples were obtained from 51 patients clinically diagnosed as potentially having COVID-19. Two different methods were compared: 1. RNA was extracted from 500 μl of sample using a MagNA Pur...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cbe8ad27-fdec-5ed0-86b1-23fb4f8ae42c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.25.172734
