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. 2020 Apr 30;6(5):591–605. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00501

Table 3. Ten Notable Journal Articles Published from January 31, 2020 through April 10, 2020 Related to COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing.

title source organization type of test digital object identifier
Correlation of Chest CT and RT-PCR Testing in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: A Report of 1014 Cases Radiology (February 26, 2020) Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China chest CT and RT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1148/radiol.2020200642
Development and Clinical Application of a Rapid IgM-IgG Combined Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Diagnosis Journal of Medical Virology (February 27, 2020) State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China lateral flow immunoassay, POC https://dx.doi. org/10.1002/jmv.25727
Fecal Specimen Diagnosis 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia Journal of Medical Virology (March 3, 2020) Department of Respiration, Jinhua Municipal Central Hospital, Jinhua Hospital of Zhejiang University, China RT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1002/jmv.25742
Improved Molecular Diagnosis of COVID-19 by the Novel, Highly Sensitive and Specific COVID-19-RdRp/Hel Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay Validated in Vitro and with Clinical Specimens Journal of Clinical Microbiology (March 4, 2020) The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, and Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, all in China real-time RT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1128/JCM.00310-20
Molecular Diagnosis of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Causing an Outbreak of Pneumonia Clinical Chemistry (April 1, 2020), Vol. 66 (4), pp. 549–555 School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China real-time RT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1093/clinchem/hvaa029
Comparative Performance of SARS-CoV-2 Detection Assays Using Seven Different Primer/Probe Sets and One Assay Kit Journal of Clinical Microbiology (April 8, 2020) Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA real-time RT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1128/JCM.00557-20
Analytical Sensitivity and Efficiency Comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 qRT-PCR Assays medRxiv (2020), 1–18 Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA qRT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1101/2020.03.30.20048108
ddPCR: A More Sensitive and Accurate Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Low Viral Load Specimens medRxiv (2020), 1–24 State Key Laboratory of Virology, Modern Virology Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China droplet digital PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1101/2020.02.29.20029439
Evaluating the Accuracy of Different Respiratory Specimens in the Laboratory Diagnosis and Monitoring the Viral Shedding of 2019-nCoV Infections medRxiv (2020) 1–17 Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Immunity, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, State Key Discipline of Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital, Second Hospital Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China qRT-PCR https://dx.doi. org/10.1101/2020.02.11.20021493
Rapid Detection of 2019 Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Using a CRISPR-Based DETECTR Lateral Flow Assay medRxiv (2020), 1–27 Mammoth Biosciences, Inc.; University of California, San Francisco, California, USA CRISPR, lateral flow, RT-LAMP https://dx.doi. org/10.1101/2020.03.06.20032334