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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Clin Microbiol
. 2021 May 5;JCM.00723-21.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00723-21. Online ahead of print.
Laboratory worker self-contamination with non-infectious SARS-CoV-2 DNA can result in false positive RT-PCR-based surveillance testing
Theresa L Montgomery[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Michelle Paavola[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Emily A Bruce[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Jason W Botten[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP], Jessica W Crothers[SUP] 4 6 [/SUP], Dimitry N Krementsov[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) prompted rapid development of research tools, including plasmid systems carrying cDNA copies of various portions of the viral genome, providing tractable tools for the study of the virus [1, 2].?.
. 2021 May 5;JCM.00723-21.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00723-21. Online ahead of print.
Laboratory worker self-contamination with non-infectious SARS-CoV-2 DNA can result in false positive RT-PCR-based surveillance testing
Theresa L Montgomery[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Michelle Paavola[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Emily A Bruce[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Jason W Botten[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP], Jessica W Crothers[SUP] 4 6 [/SUP], Dimitry N Krementsov[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33952597
- DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00723-21
Abstract
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) prompted rapid development of research tools, including plasmid systems carrying cDNA copies of various portions of the viral genome, providing tractable tools for the study of the virus [1, 2].?.