Nucleic acid-based sensing techniques for diagnostics and surveillance of influenza

SJ Courtney, ZR Stromberg, JZ Kubicek-Sutherland - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Influenza virus poses a threat to global health by causing seasonal outbreaks as well as
three pandemics in the 20th century. In humans, disease is primarily caused by influenza A …

Extended storage of SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs does not negatively impact results of molecular-based testing across three clinical platforms

KA Skalina, DY Goldstein, J Sulail, E Hahm… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - jcp.bmj.com
With the global outbreak of COVID-19, the demand for testing rapidly increased and quickly
exceeded the testing capacities of many laboratories. Clinical tests which receive CE …

Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico

TM Quandelacy, LE Adams, J Munoz, GA Santiago… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on seasonal respiratory viruses is
unknown in sub-tropical climates. Methods We compared weekly testing and test-positivity of …

Comparison of participant-collected nasal and staff-collected oropharyngeal specimens for human ribonuclease P detection with RT-PCR during a community-based …

MT Arnold, JL Temte, SK Barlow, CJ Bell, MD Goss… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We analyzed 4,352 participant-and staff-collected respiratory specimens from 2,796 subjects
in the Oregon Child Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study. Trained staff collected …

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by real-time PCR under challenging pre-analytical conditions reveals independence of swab media and cooling chain

S Summer, R Schmidt, AN Herdina, I Krickl, J Madner… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
With global demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing ever rising, shortages in commercially
available viral transport media pose a serious problem for laboratories and health care …

Measuring influenza RNA quantity after prolonged storage or multiple freeze/thaw cycles

A Granados, A Petrich, A McGeer, JB Gubbay - Journal of virological …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we aim to determine what effects prolonged storage and repeated freeze/thaw
cycles have on the stability of influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 (influenza A/H1N1) RNA. Cloned …

Recent influenza activity in tropical Puerto Rico has become synchronized with mainland US

G Paz–Bailey, TM Quandelacy… - Influenza and other …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background We used data from the Sentinel Enhanced Dengue Surveillance System
(SEDSS) to describe influenza trends in southern Puerto Rico during 2012‐2018 and …

Genotyping and detection of common avian and human origin-influenza viruses using a portable chemiluminescence imaging microarray

Y Zhang, Q Liu, D Wang, S Chen, X Wang, S Wang - SpringerPlus, 2016 - Springer
Background Influenza viruses are divided into three types, A, B, and C. Human influenza A
and B viruses can cause seasonal epidemics, but influenza C causes only a mild respiratory …

Comparison between five PCR techniques for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2.

A Tenorio-Abreu, A Ruiz-Castillo… - Revista Espanola de …, 2022 - europepmc.org
Objective Since the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 appeared, there have been numerous
techniques that have been developed for the diagnosis or monitoring of infection, both direct …

[HTML][HTML] Comparación entre cinco técnicas de PCR para el diagnóstico del SARS-CoV-2

A Tenorio-Abreu, A Ruiz-Castillo… - Revista Española de …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Resultados La sensibilidad, especificidad, valor predictivo positivo (VPP) y valor predictivo
negativo (VPN) para las técnicas de Palex, Roche y GeneXpert respecto a Seegene fueron …