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cord-259311-ccx61owl	Kapitula, D. S.	Performance & Quality Evaluation of Marketed COVID-19 RNA Detection Kits	2020-05-01		.txt	text/plain	3175	187	53	In order to provide better understanding of the Quality and performance of COVID-19 RNA detection kits on the market, we designed a system to evaluate the specificity (quantitation), sensitivity (LOD) and robustness of the kits using positive RNA and pseudovirus controls based on COVID-19 genomic sequence. At the time of submission, 23 diagnostic kits have been approved in China, of which 8 are based on quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) using COVID-19 viral RNA sequence as templates and fluorescence detection. Our study aims at providing objective evaluation and comparison of the quality and performance characteristics of 8 of the currently marketed COVID-19 nucleic acid detection kits in China based on qPCR and fluorescence detection. Our study provides an elegant design to define the most important performance characteristics of the RNA detection kits for COVID-19, which are specificity (quantitative), sensitivity (LOD), and robustness.	./cache/cord-259311-ccx61owl.txt	./txt/cord-259311-ccx61owl.txt