SARS Molecular Detection External Quality Assurance

Drosten, Christian; Doerr, Hans Wilhelm; Lim, Wilina; Stöhr, Klaus; Niedrig, Matthias

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SARS Molecular Detection External Quality Assurance

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Dec 2004
By Drosten, Christian ; Doerr, Hans Wilhelm ; Lim, Wilina ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Drosten, Christian ; Doerr, Hans Wilhelm ; Lim, Wilina ; Stöhr, Klaus ; Niedrig, Matthias
Description:

Inactivated severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus samples were used for an external quality assurance study within the World Health Organization SARS Reference and Verification Network and other reference institutions. Of 58 participants, 51 correctly detected virus in all samples > or =9,400 RNA copies per milliliter and none in negative samples. Commercial test kits significantly improved the outcome.
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Dispatch Humans Laboratories NAT PCR Quality Assurance Quality Control Reproducibility Of Results Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction RNA, Viral SARS SARS Virus WHO
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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(12):2200-2203.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Volume:

10
Issue:

12
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:11d1fcce70b32ca165cc0dbc4be93d088ee2b8f7f93e50f347fc71dbdf5f061f
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14666/cdc_14666_DS1.pdf
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