{"id":4176,"date":"2020-02-10T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:04:00","slug":"molecular-diagnosis-of-a-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-causing-an-outbreak-of-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/molecular-diagnosis-of-a-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-causing-an-outbreak-of-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Diagnosis of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Causing an Outbreak of Pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers developed two 1-step real-time RT PCR assays for the Sarbecovirus subgenus to account for potential genetic diversity of the 2019-nCoV circulating in humans. Assays were tested on respiratory samples and results are promising. Further testing is needed.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lo and Chiu offer some commentary and critique of this earlier report and opportunities for further testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chu et al. (Jan 31, 2020). Molecular Diagnosis of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Causing an Outbreak of Pneumonia. Clinical Chemistry. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/clinchem\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/clinchem\/hvaa029\/5719336\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/clinchem\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/clinchem\/hvaa029\/5719336<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lo and Rossa (Feb 7, 2020).<\/span><\/i><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Racing towards the development of diagnostics for a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Clinical Chemistry. <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/clinchem\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/clinchem\/hvaa038\/5729988\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/clinchem\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/clinchem\/hvaa038\/5729988<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers developed two 1-step real-time RT PCR assays for the Sarbecovirus subgenus to account for potential genetic diversity of the 2019-nCoV circulating in humans. Assays were tested on respiratory samples and results are promising. Further testing is needed. Lo and Chiu offer some commentary and critique of this earlier report and opportunities for further testing.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/molecular-diagnosis-of-a-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-causing-an-outbreak-of-pneumonia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}