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. 2021 Mar 19;59(4):e03278-20.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.03278-20. Print 2021 Mar 19.

A Novel Point Mutation in the N Gene of SARS-CoV-2 May Affect the Detection of the Virus by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR

Mohammad Rubayet Hasan  1   2 , Sathyavathi Sundararaju  3 , Chidambaram Manickam  3 , Faheem Mirza  3 , Hamad Al-Hail  3 , Stephan Lorenz  3 , Patrick Tang  3   2
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A Novel Point Mutation in the N Gene of SARS-CoV-2 May Affect the Detection of the Virus by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR

Mohammad Rubayet Hasan et al. J Clin Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; N gene; RT-qPCR; SARS-CoV-2; point mutation.

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DNA chromatogram alignment of the wild type and C29200A variants. Arrows at the top show the primers and the probe for the CDC 2019_nCoV_N2 assay. Dotted line shows the position of SNP C29200A.
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