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Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR primer-probe sets #MMPMID32651556
Vogels CBF; Brito AF; Wyllie AL; Fauver JR; Ott IM; Kalinich CC; Petrone ME; Casanovas-Massana A; Catherine Muenker M; Moore AJ; Klein J; Lu P; Lu-Culligan A; Jiang X; Kim DJ; Kudo E; Mao T; Moriyama M; Oh JE; Park A; Silva J; Song E; Takahashi T; Taura M; Tokuyama M; Venkataraman A; Weizman OE; Wong P; Yang Y; Cheemarla NR; White EB; Lapidus S; Earnest R; Geng B; Vijayakumar P; Odio C; Fournier J; Bermejo S; Farhadian S; Dela Cruz CS; Iwasaki A; Ko AI; Landry ML; Foxman EF; Grubaugh ND
Nat Microbiol 2020[Oct]; 5 (10): 1299-1305 PMID32651556show ga
The recent spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exemplifies the critical need for accurate and rapid diagnostic assays to prompt clinical and public health interventions. Currently, several quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (RT-qPCR) assays are being used by clinical, research and public health laboratories. However, it is currently unclear whether results from different tests are comparable. Our goal was to make independent evaluations of primer-probe sets used in four common SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic assays. From our comparisons of RT-qPCR analytical efficiency and sensitivity, we show that all primer-probe sets can be used to detect SARS-CoV-2 at 500 viral RNA copies per reaction. The exception for this is the RdRp-SARSr (Charite) confirmatory primer-probe set which has low sensitivity, probably due to a mismatch to circulating SARS-CoV-2 in the reverse primer. We did not find evidence for background amplification with pre-COVID-19 samples or recent SARS-CoV-2 evolution decreasing sensitivity. Our recommendation for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing is to select an assay with high sensitivity and that is regionally used, to ease comparability between outcomes.