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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Venzor A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7928313 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia-Venzor Alfredo A Rueda-Zarazua Bertha B Marquez-Garcia Eduardo E Maldonado Vilma V Moncada-Morales Angelica A Olivera Hiram H Lopez Irma I Zuñiga Joaquin J Melendez-Zajgla Jorge J
Frontiers in medicine 20210217
As to date, more than 49 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) have been reported worldwide. Current diagnostic protocols use qRT-PCR for viral RNA detection, which is expensive and requires sophisticated equipment, trained personnel and previous RNA extraction. For this reason, we need a faster, direct and more versatile detection method for better epidemiological management of the COVID-19 outbreak. In this work, we propose a direct method without RNA extraction, based o ...[more]