Background COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The World Health Organization declared a global pandemic in March 2020. The Minister of Health signed theInterim Order Respecting the Importation...
Healthcare providers* considering testing people with possible COVID-19 should work with their local and state health departments to coordinate testing through public health laboratories, or work with commercial or clinical laboratories using...
ABSTRACT The use of new flocked swabs, compared to kit swabs, enhanced the ability of three commercial nucleic acid amplification tests to detect low levels of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae nucleic acids when the organisms...
Abstract The extraction and recovery efficiency of swabs used to collect evidence at crime scenes is relatively low (typically <50%) for bacterial spores and body fluids. Cell‐free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is...