2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Paving the Road for Rapid Detection and Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Trieu Nguyen; Dang Duong Bang; Anders Wolff

doi:10.3390/mi11030306

2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Paving the Road for Rapid Detection and Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Micromachines (Basel). 2020 Mar 14;11(3):306. doi: 10.3390/mi11030306.

Authors

Trieu Nguyen¹, Dang Duong Bang², Anders Wolff¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
² Laboratory of Applied Micro and Nanotechnology (LAMINATE), Division of Microbiology and Production, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark. Kemitorvet, Building 204, 2800 Lyngby Denmark.

Abstract

We believe a point-of-care (PoC) device for the rapid detection of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is crucial and urgently needed. With this perspective, we give suggestions regarding a potential candidate for the rapid detection of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as well as factors for the preparedness and response to the outbreak of the COVID-19.

Keywords: (Loop-mediated isothermal amplification) LAMP assay; (polymerase chain reaction) PCR; 2019 novel Coronavirus; COVID-19; Point-of-care detection; SARS-CoV-2; Wuhan.

Grants and funding

773422/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme