Why COVID-19 Laboratory Personnel Should Be Tested Before Attending the Laboratory: how even the most experienced personnel conta350minate clinical samples | Zendy

Vahid Kia | Zendy; Maryam Teimouri | Zendy; Fatemeh Sadat Bitaraf | Zendy

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Why COVID-19 Laboratory Personnel Should Be Tested Before Attending the Laboratory: how even the most experienced personnel conta350minate clinical samples

Author(s) -

Vahid Kia,

Maryam Teimouri,

Fatemeh Sadat Bitaraf

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of advances in medical and biomedical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113

H-Index - 12

ISSN - 2676-6264

DOI - 10.30699/jambs.28.131.350

Subject(s) - covid-19 , medical laboratory , personal protective equipment , laboratory safety , medicine , medical emergency , nursing , virology , pathology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nuclear medicine

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a pandemic (1). Early diagnosis and testing of symptomatic individuals and asymptomatic carriers (2) remain essential since the latter group can transmit the virus (3,4). Current assays for SARS-CoV-2 detection are mostly based on quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR)(5). However, cross-contamination remains a challenge in RT-qPCR assays. Here, we would like to share the most interesting route of sample contamination in SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnosis laboratories and the necessity of personnel testing.

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