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High- and moderate-complexity CLIA testing
Thermal cyclers are the standard instruments for PCR testing. Today, real-time or quantitative (qPCR) systems largely fill this niche. However, digital and droplet digital PCR systems are emerging, and they have the benefit of producing even more rapid, precise, sensitive, accurate, and reproducible results, and they are capable of direct quantification and multiplexing. Other instruments and accessories for PCR workflows include proper power supplies, analytical balances, electrophoresis chambers, water and/or dry baths, and mini/micro centrifuges. However, if you're considering the addition of PCR workflow to your laboratory, the thermal cycler is typically where the largest up-front cost will be. As such, it's important to ask yourself critical questions to help guide your acquisition decisions.
As part of their June 2018 survey on PCR equipment, Lab Manager posed five questions potential buyers should ask before making PCR purchases[1]:
- Do your current and long-term needs require basic PCR systems, qPCR systems, or digital PCR systems?
- What sample formats do you anticipate using?
- What throughput requirements do you have now and anticipate in the near future?
- What are you willing to sacrifice in regards to temperature ramp up and cool down times and accuracies?
- Do you anticipate needing to run more than one independent PCR at the same time (multiblock PCR)?
Given the considerable investment that goes into these and other life science instruments, you may want to seek vendors who have a strong track record of supporting and supplying parts for instruments they manufacture and distribute years after the instruments are introduced.[2]
As for PCR-based assays, the U.S. FDA has issued EUAs for more than 200 of them. The most up-to-date listing is of course found at the FDA website. However, sorting through the extra details can be tedious. The Center for Systems Biology at Harvard has been maintaining a contextual PDF chart of the various COVID-19 diagnostic tests, which includes information such as run time, manufacturer-supplied data, and published clinical data (when available). This may prove useful in deciding on one or more particular tests. As with many aspects of this pandemic, other factors that may influence your choice of test kit include overall availability, cost, reagents included with the assay, and reagents separately required and their availability.
Isothermal amplification techniques have the advantage of not requiring an expensive thermal cycler.[3] Instrument-appropriate reaction vessels, baths, heating units, turbidimeters, thermocyclers, etc. may be required, depending on what type of amplification you're doing. Companies like Meridian Bioscience offer LAMP-based molecular platforms, though they may not offer a specific COVID-19 assay to run on the platform.[4] As can be seen in Table 1, two isothermal amplification assays that run on their own proprietary instrument have received EUAs and are CLIA-waved, with a third potentially on the way. Using these systems and their COVID-19 assays at the point of care provides a somewhat more attractive option for laboratories wanting to add COVID-19 or even multiplex viral assays to their offerings.
CLIA-waived testing
If you're running a POL, or attempting to provide COVID-19 testing at the point of care, you'll be looking at the following molecular diagnostic assays (Table 1) and antigen diagnostic assays (Table 2), depending on the level of accuracy and purpose of use required in your POL. Remember that—broadly speaking—antigen tests tend to have lower sensitivities than molecular tests, leaving antigen tests best used as surveillance or repeat screening tools.[5][6][7] For example, the directions for the BD Veritor System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 manufactured by Becton, Dickinson and Company state: "Sensitivity of the test after the first five days of the onset of symptoms has been demonstrated to decrease as compared to a RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 assay."[8]
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References
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