Comparison of efficacy and reliability of six commercial COVID-19 diagnostic PCR kits

Abstract

All countries have been deeply affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, both economically and in situations that strain health systems, such as workforce and workload. Therefore, various measures should be taken to control the disease and prevent its spread. Since the disease onset, real-time PCR tests have been used as the gold standard for disease diagnosis. Owing to the rapid progress of the pandemic and the spread of the disease, validation, consistency, and optimization tests of some commercial kits have been conducted directly in the field. Therefore, it is important to compare the results of these kits and improve the existing ones.

Keywords

• pandemics
• covid-19
• sars-cov-2 detection kits
• rt-pcr
• ct values