Direct RT-qPCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from patient nasopharyngeal swabs without an RNA extraction step.

Autor: Emily A Bruce, Meei-Li Huang, Garrett A Perchetti, Scott Tighe, Pheobe Laaguiby, Jessica J Hoffman, Diana L Gerrard, Arun K Nalla, Yulun Wei, Alexander L Greninger, Sean A Diehl, David J Shirley, Debra G B Leonard, Christopher D Huston, Beth D Kirkpatrick, Julie A Dragon, Jessica W Crothers, Keith R Jerome, Jason W Botten
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: PLoS Biology, Vol 18, Iss 10, p e3000896 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1544-9173
1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000896
Popis: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented need for rapid diagnostic testing. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a standard assay that includes an RNA extraction step from a nasopharyngeal (NP) swab followed by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to detect the purified SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The current global shortage of RNA extraction kits has caused a severe bottleneck to COVID-19 testing. The goal of this study was to determine whether SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be detected from NP samples via a direct RT-qPCR assay that omits the RNA extraction step altogether. The direct RT-qPCR approach correctly identified 92% of a reference set of blinded NP samples (n = 155) demonstrated to be positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by traditional clinical diagnostic RT-qPCR that included an RNA extraction. Importantly, the direct method had sufficient sensitivity to reliably detect those patients with viral loads that correlate with the presence of infectious virus. Thus, this strategy has the potential to ease supply choke points to substantially expand COVID-19 testing and screening capacity and should be applicable throughout the world.
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