Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

April 24, 2020

Scalable and Resilient SARS-CoV2 testing in an Academic Centre

Category:

Topic:

  • This article provides a roadmap instructing how a research institute can be repurposed in the midst of this crisis, in collaboration with partner hospitals and an established diagnostic laboratory. Existing expertise in virus handling, robotics, PCR and data science can be harnessed to create a rapid, high throughput diagnostic pipeline for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in patients with suspected COVID-19. 
  • This strategy facilitates the remote reporting of thousands of samples a day with a turnaround time of under 24 hours and is universally applicable to laboratories worldwide.

Aitken et al. (April 24 2020). Scalable and Resilient SARS-CoV2 testing in an Academic Centre. Pre-print downloaded April 24 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.19.20071373