DIRECT RT-qPCR DETECTION OF SARS-CoV-2 RNA FROM PATIENT NASOPHARYNGEAL SWABS WITHOUT AN RNA EXTRACTION STEP
E. A. Bruce, M.-L. Huang, G. A. Perchetti, S. Tighe, J. J. Hoffman, P. Laaguiby, D. L. Gerrard, A. Nalla, Y. Wei, A. L. Greninger, S. A. Diehl, D. J. Shirley, D. G. B. Leonard, C. D. Huston, B. D. Kirkpatrick, , J. W. Botten
This paper tests a direct RT-qPCR method for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in nasal swabs without RNA extraction, achieving 92% accuracy on blinded samples.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2020Microbiology