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Coronavirus and the race to distribute reliable diagnostics

International teams worked at speed to make tests for the virus available in record time.
  1. Cormac Sheridan

    1. Dublin, Ireland

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The medical community is rallying to develop a set of rapid and reliable molecular diagnostic tests for the new human coronavirus that appeared in China — now dubbed sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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Nature Biotechnology 38, 382-384 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41587-020-00002-2

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  • Update 03 June 2020: In the original version of this article, the test developed by Altona Diagnostics was described as targeting the F gene when it should have said the S gene. The error has been corrected.Table contents were updated on Feb 26, 2020 with information from TIB Molbiol, and on March 05, 2020 with information from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research. MiRXES.

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