Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by direct RT-qPCR on nasopharyngeal specimens without extraction of viral RNA

Published 2020 View Full Article

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Keywords

SARS CoV 2, RNA extraction, Virus testing, COVID 19, Polymerase chain reaction, Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, Heat treatment, Nucleases

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PLoS One

Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages e0236564

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Online

2020-07-25

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0236564

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