Kathleen Boerner

TL;DR: The sensitivity and specificity of the RT-LAMP assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA was determined and a multiplexed sequencing protocol (LAMP-sequencing) was developed as a diagnostic validation procedure to detect and record the outcome of RT- LAMP reactions.

TL;DR: This study tested a two-color RT-LAMP protocol using clinical SARS-CoV-2 samples and established a protocol that does not require prior RNA isolation and developed a multiplexed LAMP-sequencing protocol as a validation and backup procedure to double-check the results of visual RT- LAMP assays.

TL;DR: In this article, four different active SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies for general population surveillance are evaluated for their effectiveness in determining and predicting the prevalence of SARS infection in a given population, and the costs and cost-effectiveness of the four surveillance strategies are assessed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized, randomized, controlled, multi-arm, prospective, interventional, single-blinded design with cluster sampling and four study arms, each representing a different SARS-CoV-2 testing and surveillance strategy based on individuals' self-collection of saliva samples which are then sent to and analyzed by a laboratory.

TL;DR: In this article , the setup of a cost-effective platform that can be employed in a high-throughput manner, which allows surveillance testing as an acute pandemic control and preparedness tool, exemplified by SARS-CoV•2 diagnostics in an academic environment, is described.