Copan eNAT Transport System To Address Challenges in COVID-19 Diagnostics in Regions with Limited Testing Access-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Copan eNAT Transport System To Address Challenges in COVID-19 Diagnostics in Regions with Limited Testing Access

Published:2021-04-20 Issue:5 Volume:59 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Richard-Greenblatt Melissa¹²³^ORCID,Comar Courtney E.⁴,Flevaud Laurence⁵,Berti Marina⁵,Harris Rebecca M.¹³,Weiss Susan R.⁴,Glaser Laurel¹²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2. Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

3. Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

4. Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

5. Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF), Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Community-based health care clinics and hospital outreach services have the potential to expand coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnostics to rural areas. However, reduced specimen stability during extended transport, the absence of a cold chain to centralized laboratories, and biosafety concerns surrounding specimen handling have limited this expansion.

Funder

HHS | National Institutes of Health

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.00110-21

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