Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in different types of clinical specimens

W Wang, Y Xu, R Gao, R Lu, K Han, G Wu, W Tan - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… , SARS-CoV-2 was detected in specimens from multiple sites of 205 patients with COVID-19,
with lower respiratory tract samples … feces, implying that SARS-CoV-2 may be transmitted by …

Laboratory testing of SARSCoV, MERSCoV, and SARSCoV2 (2019nCoV): Current status, challenges, and countermeasures

Y Yan, L Chang, L Wang - Reviews in medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… , 41 we suggest handling samples in these reagents, as well as other virus retention
reagents containing guanidine salt would be an effective way to inactivate and stabilize viruses, …

Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples

Y Pan, D Zhang, P Yang, LLM Poon… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… sputum samples collected from 80 patients at different stages after disease onset. (D)
Correlation between viral load in throat swab samples and viral load in sputum samples. 1 0 2 3 4 …

SARS-CoV-2 viral load in clinical samples from critically ill patients

Y Huang, S Chen, Z Yang, W Guan, D Liu… - American journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
… is the major target organ of SARS-CoV-2; however, we detected viral RNA in numerous
different clinical samples, including conjunctival swabs, blood samples, gastric juices, feces, …

Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples

Y Wu, C Guo, L Tang, Z Hong, J Zhou… - The lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) real-time RT-PCR results of all
respiratory and faecal samples from patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the …

Clinical samples for SARS-CoV-2 detection: review of the early literature

RM Martinez - Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, 2020 - Elsevier
… Therefore, when the initial nasopharyngeal (NP) sample … and transport media), sample
selection, sample collection (ie, poor-… know about sample types used for SARS-CoV-2 testing will …

Clinical evaluation of three sample-to-answer platforms for detection of SARS-CoV-2

W Zhen, E Smith, R Manji, D Schron… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In summary, we evaluated three sample-to-answer platforms for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
using NP specimens, including two platforms that are designed to be used in the near-…

Sample pooling as a strategy to detect community transmission of SARS-CoV-2

CA Hogan, MK Sahoo, BA Pinsky - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… 10 individual samples that tested negative for other respiratory viruses. The number of
SARS-CoV-2 samples, … A total of 292 pools composed of 2888 individual samples were screened. …

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in human breastmilk

R Groß, C Conzelmann, JA Müller, S Stenger… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA (not viral particles, as incorrectly stated by Natalie Shenker
and colleagues) in consecutive milk samples … not claim that SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via …

Performance of six SARS-CoV-2 immunoassays in comparison with microneutralisation

AJ Jääskeläinen, S Kuivanen, E Kekäläinen… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Serum samples comprising the COVID-19 patient panel The patient panel consisted of serum
samples from coronavirus 19 disease (COVID-19) … samples in our laboratory (Table 2). For …