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. 2020 Aug;26(8):1109-1111.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.016. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Clinical microbiology laboratory adaptation to COVID-19 emergency: experience at a large teaching hospital in Rome, Italy

B Posteraro  1 , S Marchetti  2 , L Romano  2 , R Santangelo  3 , G A Morandotti  2 , M Sanguinetti  4 , P Cattani  3 ; FPG COVID Laboratory Group
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Clinical microbiology laboratory adaptation to COVID-19 emergency: experience at a large teaching hospital in Rome, Italy

B Posteraro et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Aug.
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Timeline of median turnaround time (TAT) values for the samples tested for direct severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) detection during March 2020. Arrows indicate the laboratory's adaptive interventions to the progressively increasing number of samples that took place in the study period (1 March to 24 March). One intervention (first arrow) was to extend the working to night hours. The subsequent interventions involved a change from low-throughput (second arrow) to high-throughput (third arrow) systems for viral RNA extraction and PCR assay setup.
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