Design considerations for point-of-need devices based on nucleic acid amplification for COVID-19 diagnostics and beyond

Biotechniques. 2021 Oct;71(4):505-509. doi: 10.2144/btn-2021-0040. Epub 2021 Aug 16.

Haoqing Zhang¹, Petr Pajer², Jiří Kudr³, Ondrej Zitka^{3

4}, Pavel Neužil^{1

5}

¹ Department of Microsystem Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710072, PR China.
² Military Heath Institute, U Vojenské nemocnice 1200, CZ-162 00, Praha 6, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴ Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Technická 3058/10, CZ-616 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁵ Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Communication Technology, Brno University of Technology, Technická 10, Brno, Czech Republic.

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Keywords: COVID-19; RT-PCR; point of care; point of need; portable systems.

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