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Collection: COVID-19 Response at the University of Illinois
Description: Preprint article. Abstract: Convenient, repeatable, large-scale molecular testing for SARS-CoV-2 would be a key weapon to help control the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, standard SARS-CoV-2 testing protocols are invasive and rely on numerous items that can be subject to supply chain bottlenecks, and as such are not suitable for frequent repeat testing. Specifically, personal protective equipment (PPE), nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, the associated viral transport media (VTM), and kits for RNA isolation and purification have all been in short supply at various times during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 is spread through droplets and aerosols transmitted through person-to-person contact, and thus saliva may be a relevant medium for diagnosing SARSCoV-2 infection status. Here we describe a saliva-based testing method that bypasses the need for RNA isolation/purification. In experiments with inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus spiked into saliva, this method has a limit of detection of 500-1000 viral particles per mL, rivalling the standard NP swab method, and initial studies also show excellent performance with 100 clinical samples. This saliva-based process is operationally simple, utilizes readily available materials, and can be easily implemented by existing testing sites, thus allowing for high-throughput, rapid, and repeat testing of large populations.
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Subject: Medical tests (diagnosis), Quantitative Research, PCR (biochemistry), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Diana Rose E. Ranoa, Robin L. Holland, Fadi G. Alnaji, Kelsie J. Green, Leyi Wang, Christopher B. Brooke , Martin D. Burke, Timothy M. Fan, Paul J. Hergenrother
Publisher: bioRxiv
Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Language: English
Format: WARC
Type: Web archives
Date: 2020-11-11
Rights: The copyright for this preprint is the creator/funder. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license.
Collector: University Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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