Table II.

Recommended COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Detection Techniques

Organization conducted the study	Test principle	Sensitivity of test	Manufacturer/commercially available devices	Reference
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China	Chest CT RT-PCR	Chest CT 97% RT-PCR 59%	-	(11)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, WA, USA	Real-time RT-PCR	84.6%	Xpert® Xpress by Cepheid Roche Molecular System	(12)
University of California, San Francisco, USA	CRISPR	Not reported	Cepheid Sherlock Biosciences Mammoth Biosciences	(13)
Wuhan Institute of Virology, China	Isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology	95%	Abbott® ID Now	(7,14,15)

CT- Computed Tomography; RT-PCR- Reverse Transcriptase- Polymerase chain reaction; CRISPR- Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Release