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Easing diagnosis and pushing the detection limits of SARS-CoV-2 #MMPMID33072873
Biol Methods Protoc 2020[]; 5 (1): bpaa017 PMID33072873show ga
Rigorous testing is the way forward to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Here we show that the currently used and most reliable reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction-based severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) procedure can be further simplified to make it faster, safer, and economical by eliminating the RNA isolation step. The modified method is not only fast and convenient but also at par with the traditional method in terms of accuracy, and therefore can be used for mass screening. Our method takes about half the time and is cheaper by approximately 40% compared to the currently used method. We also provide a variant of the new method that increases the efficiency of detection by approximately 30% compared to the existing procedure. Taken together, we demonstrate a more effective and reliable method of SARS-CoV-2 detection.