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. 2021 Nov 9:1–11. doi: 10.1080/14737159.2021.1970535

Table 3.

Details on molecular diagnostic tools-based detection tests used for SARS-CoV-2. The details such as test name, type of test, source of sample, targeted genes, results, test time and name of the organization with their country are included

Test Name Type of test Sample source Targeted genes Test time Organization Name Country
iAMP
COVID-19
detection Kit
RT-RPA Nasal, nasopharyngeal and throat swabs ORF1 and N <1.5 hours Atila Biosystems Ltd. United States
ID NOW COVID-19 RT-RPA Nasal, nasopharyngea, and throat swabs RdRP <5 minutes Abbott
Diagnostics Scarborough Ltd.
United States
SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Nasal, nasopharyngeal, throat swabs, midturbinate nasal swabs and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid N1 and RdRP <1 hour Diagnostic
Molecular
Laboratory
United States
RT-PCR (COVID-19) qRT-PCR Nasal, nasopharyngeal, throat swabs, midturbinate nasal swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, aspirates, and sputum N 4 days LabCorp
Laboratory
Corporation of America
United States
ARIES SARS-CoV-2 assay qRT-PCR Nasal ORF1 lab and N 2 hours Luminex
Corporation
United States
SARS-CoV-2 RT-RPA Respiratory samples E and N 30–40 minutes Mammoth
Biosciences
United States
Accula SARS-CoV-2 PCR Throat and nasal swabs N 30 minutes Mesa
Biotech Inc.
United States
QIAstat-Dx Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 qRT-PCR Nasopharyngeal Viral RNA 1 hour Qiagen GmBH United States
TaqPath COVID-19 combo Kit qRT-PCR Oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal, and anterior nasal ORF1, S, and N - Rutgers Clinical Genomics
Laboratory
United States
cobas SARS-CoV-2 qRT-PCR Nasal and nasopharyngeal Viral RNA 5 hours Roche Molecular Systems. Ltd United States
Viracor SARS-CoV-2 assay qRT-PCR Oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal, and anterior nasal N 18 hours Viracor Eurofins Clinical
Diagnostics
United States
BioFire COVID-19 qRT-PCR Nasopharyngeal ORF1ab and ORF8 1. 5 hours bioFire
Defense LLC.
United States
CDC-2019 PCR Oropharyngeal, Nasopharyngeal, and anterior nasal, nasal swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, aspirates and sputum N - CDC-US United States
Xepert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 PCR Nasal and nasopharyngeal N2 and E 45 Minutes Cepheid Australia, Canada, Singapore, and United States
Panther Fushion SARS-CoV-2 PCR Nasopharyngeal ORF1 lab 1 and 2 <3 hours Hologic Inc. Australia and United States
MiRXES
FORTITUDE KIT
qRT-PCR Nasopharyngeal Viral RNA 90 Minutes mIREXES
Pte Ltd.
Singapore
VitaPCR
SARS-CoV-2
PCR Nasal and nasopharyngeal Viral RNA 20 Minutes Credo
Diagnostics
Biomedical
Ptd. Ltd.
Singapore
Lyra
SARS-CoV-2
qRT-PCR Oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal Pp1ab 75 Minutes Diagnostics
Hybrid Inc.
Canada
Nucleic Acid Diagnostic Kit (COVID-19) qRT-PCR Oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal, serum, blood, and fecus ORF1 lab 1 and E 30 Minutes Sansure
Biotech Inc.
China
Standard M nCOV RT
Detection Kit
qRT-PCR Oropharyngeal swabs E and RrRP1 50 Minutes SD
Biosensor
South Korea

RT-RPA, reverse transcription-recombinase-polymerase isothermal amplification; qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction; N, nucleocapsid; ORF1, open reading frame; E, envelope; pp1ab, poly proteins.