Code
01C04720
Duration
15 April 2020 → 14 January 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Virology
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Medical and health sciences
- Microbial diagnostics
- Clinical microbiology
- Epidemiology
Keywords
Saliva
molecular diagnostics
diagnostic capacity
pooling
Project description
Nasopharyngeal swabs are recommended for the molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 but offer disadvantages such as dire shortage. Therefore, we aim to validate saliva as an alternative specimen. We further plan to design a saliva pooling strategy as a part of a diagnostic tool for largescale
real-time epidemiological testing. Such strategy will be of value in the management of current pandemic.