{"id":8925,"date":"2020-08-10T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:04:14","slug":"crispr-based-and-rt-qpcr-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-asymptomatic-individuals-uncovers-a-shift-in-viral-prevalence-among-a-university-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/crispr-based-and-rt-qpcr-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-asymptomatic-individuals-uncovers-a-shift-in-viral-prevalence-among-a-university-population\/","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR-Based and RT-QPCR Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Asymptomatic Individuals Uncovers a Shift in Viral Prevalence among a University Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Testing of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0oropharyngeal self-collected samples\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic students and others associated with the University of California Santa Barbara<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(UCSB)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found that n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">one of 732 samples from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the first round of testing (May 28 to June 11)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and that there were 9 positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0out of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1,076\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tests<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the second\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">round (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">June 23<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to July 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors report near-perfect concordance in results obtained by RT-qPCR and CREST, a CRISPR-based method recently developed at UCSB.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rauch et al. (Aug 7, 2020). CRISPR-Based and RT-QPCR Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Asymptomatic Individuals Uncovers a Shift in Viral Prevalence among a University Population.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded\u00a0Aug 10 from<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.06.20169771\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.06.20169771<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Testing of\u00a0oropharyngeal self-collected samples\u00a0for SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic students and others associated with the University of California Santa Barbara\u00a0(UCSB)\u00a0found that none of 732 samples from\u00a0the first round of testing (May 28 to June 11)\u00a0were positive\u00a0and that there were 9 positives\u00a0out of\u00a01,076\u00a0tests\u00a0in the second\u00a0round (June 23\u00a0to July 2).\u00a0 The authors report near-perfect concordance in results&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/crispr-based-and-rt-qpcr-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-asymptomatic-individuals-uncovers-a-shift-in-viral-prevalence-among-a-university-population\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-8925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925","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=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}