Usability of non-medicinal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection to circumvent supply shortages

Diagnosis (Berl). 2020 Dec 21;8(3):398-399. doi: 10.1515/dx-2020-0135. Print 2021 Aug 26.

Authors

Günter Dollenmaier¹, Remo Würth¹, Esther Laternser¹, Salome N Seiffert¹, Wolfgang Korte¹, Oliver Nolte¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Laboratory Medicine, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

PMID: 33554512
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2020-0135

No abstract available

Keywords: PCR; SARS-CoV-2; pre-analytics; swabs.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19*
Humans
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2*