Rapid molecular detection of Zika virus in urine using the recombinase polymerase amplification assay
Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Sabri S. Sanabani, Oumar Faye, Rodrigo Pessoa, Joao-Veras Patriota, Ricardo Rodrigues-Giorgi, Pranav Patel, Susanne Boehlken-Fascher, Olfert Landt, Matthias Niedrig, Paolo M. de A. Zanotto, Claus-Peter Czerny, Amadou A. Sall, Manfred Weidmann
The paper develops a rapid RT-RPA assay for detecting Zika virus in urine with high specificity and sensitivity, suitable for low-resource settings.
PLoS Currents · Jan 1, 2017Peer-reviewedMicrobiology