{"id":1693,"date":"2020-10-21T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:22:46","slug":"multiplex-rt-real-time-pcr-assays-for-diagnostic-testing-of-sars-cov-2-and-seasonal-influenza-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/multiplex-rt-real-time-pcr-assays-for-diagnostic-testing-of-sars-cov-2-and-seasonal-influenza-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplex Rt-Real Time PCR Assays for Diagnostic Testing of SARS-CoV-2 and Seasonal Influenza Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multiplex RT-PCR assay was able to detect and discriminate between samples that were positive for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza and was able to detect co-infections. The authors suggest that the assay may be used for diagnostic and surveillance purposes during the seasonal influenza activity period.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mancini et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Multiplex Rt-Real Time PCR Assays for Diagnostic Testing of SARS-CoV-2 and Seasonal Influenza Viruses. A Challenge of the Phase 3 Pandemic Setting. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiaa658\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiaa658<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multiplex RT-PCR assay was able to detect and discriminate between samples that were positive for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza and was able to detect co-infections. The authors suggest that the assay may be used for diagnostic and surveillance purposes during the seasonal influenza activity period. Mancini et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Multiplex Rt-Real Time PCR&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/multiplex-rt-real-time-pcr-assays-for-diagnostic-testing-of-sars-cov-2-and-seasonal-influenza-viruses\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}