April 2022
In this study, different technologies are compared for naso/oropharyngeal swabs and saliva sample collection, transport and storage when SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing is performed after prolonged storage.
Pre-analytical sample stabilization by different sampling devices for PCR-based COVID-19 diagnostics
Melina Hardt, Esther Föderl-Höbenreich, Stephanie Freydl, Antonio Kouros, Martina Loibner, Kurt Zatloukal (Diagnostic- and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Diagnostic- and Research Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria)
New BIOTECHNOLOGY 70 (2022) 19–27 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2022.04.001
