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Fast, Reliable, and Simple Point-of-Care-like Adaptation of RT-qPCR for the Detection of SARS- CoV-2 for Use in Hospital Emergency Departments

During COVID-19 pandemics, the availability of testing has often been a limiting factor during patient admissions into the hospital. To circumvent this problem, we adapted an existing diagnostic assay, Seegene Allplex SARS-CoV-2, into a point-of-care-style direct qPCR (POC dqPCR) assay and implemented it in the Emergency Department of Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Croatia. In a 4-month analysis, we tested over 10, 000 patients and demonstrated that POC-dqPCR is robust and reliable and can be successfully implemented in emergency departments and similar near- patient settings and can be performed by medical personnel with little prior experience in qPCR.

SARS-CoV-2 ; qPCR ; direct qPCR ; dqPCR ; point-of-care PCR ; emergency department ; molecular diagnostics ; COVID-19

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