Laboratory Worker Self-Contamination with Noninfectious SARS-CoV-2 DNA Can Result in False-Positive Reverse Transcriptase PCR-Based Surveillance Testing

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biomedical and Health Sciences, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ² Center for Health and Wellbeing, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ³ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ⁴ Translational Global Infectious Disease Research Center, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont, USA.