CovidNudge test

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Indications

Clinical significance

Methods

  • nasopharyngeal swabs are inserted directly into a cartridge containing all reagents & components required for RT-PCR, including multiple replicates of 7 SARS-CoV-2 gene targets (rdrp1, rdrp2, e-gene, n-gene, n1, n2 and n3) & human ribonuclease P (RNaseP) as sample control.

More general terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gibani MM, Toumazou C. Sohbati M et al Assessing a novel, lab-free, point-of-care test for SARS-CoV-2 (CovidNudge): a diagnostic accuracy study. The Lancet Microbe. Sept 17, 2020 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32964211 PMCID: PMC7498257 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30121-X/fulltext