Minimally instrumented SHERLOCK (miSHERLOCK) for CRISPR-based point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

H De Puig, RA Lee, D Najjar, X Tan, LR Soenksen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for diagnostics that can be rapidly adapted
and deployed in a variety of settings. Several SARS-CoV-2 variants have shown worrisome …

A paper-based assay for the colorimetric detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants at single-nucleotide resolution

T Zhang, R Deng, Y Wang, C Wu, K Zhang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
highlighted the need for versatile diagnostic assays that can discriminate among emerging …

Predicting infectivity: comparing four PCR‐based assays to detect culturable SARS‐CoV‐2 in clinical samples

EA Bruce, MG Mills, R Sampoleo… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
With the COVID‐19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 now in its second year, there
remains an urgent need for diagnostic testing that can identify infected individuals …

Laboratory-generated DNA can cause anomalous pathogen diagnostic test results

LR Robinson-McCarthy, AJ Mijalis… - Microbiology …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about the
unprecedented expansion of highly sensitive molecular diagnostics as a primary infection …

Amplification‐Free, Sequencing‐Free, Detection of Viral RNAs with Variant Specification by Discrete Nanocounting

Z Wang, X Zhao, WM Chan, X Ji… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study describes an amplification‐free, sequencing‐free platform (NanoPick‐array) for
fast analysis of viral RNAs. The platform combines selective short‐cut of viral RNAs, cherry …

Amplicon residues in research laboratories masquerade as COVID-19 in surveillance tests

D Davidi, S Fitzgerald, HL Glaspell, S Jalbert… - Cell reports …, 2021 - cell.com
Asymptomatic surveillance testing together with COVID-19-related research can lead to
positive SARS-CoV-2 tests resulting not from true infections, but non-infectious, non …

False coronavirus disease 2019 cases due to contamination by inactivated virus vaccine

KKW To, X Li, DC Lung, JD Ip, WM Chan… - Clinical Infectious …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A false-positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reverse-
transcription polymerase chain reaction result can lead to unnecessary public health …

Laboratory worker self-contamination with noninfectious SARS-CoV-2 DNA can result in false-positive reverse transcriptase PCR-based surveillance testing

TL Montgomery, M Paavola, EA Bruce… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Theresa L. Montgomery, a Michelle Paavola, b Emily A. Bruce, c, d Jason W. Botten, c, d, e
Jessica W. Crothers, d, f Dimitry N. Krementsov a aDepartment of Biomedical and Health …

Head-to-head comparison of direct-input RT-PCR and RT-LAMP against RT-qPCR on extracted RNA for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics

MJ Kellner, M Matl, JJ Ross, J Schnabl, D Handler… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Viral pandemics, such as Covid-19, pose serious threats to human societies. To control the
spread of highly contagious viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, effective test-trace-isolate …

Electrostatic Assembly of Anti-Listeria Bacteriophages on a Self-Assembled Monolayer of Aminoundecanethiol: Film Morphology, Charge Transfer Studies, and …

PMV Fernandes, C Maciel, P Teixeira, CM Pereira… - Surfaces, 2023 - mdpi.com
The integration of bacteriophages, a particular class of viruses that specifically infect
bacteria and archaea, in biosensors for the monitoring of pathogens in foods and beverages …