Practical strategies for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing in resource-constrained settings

  1. Meredith S. Muller
  2. Srijana B. Chhetri
  3. Christopher Basham
  4. Tyler Rapp
  5. Feng-Chang Lin
  6. Kelly Lin
  7. Daniel Westreich
  8. Carla Cerami
  9. Jonathan J. Juliano
  10. Jessica T. Lin

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115469
  2. Version published to 10.1101/2021.02.18.21251999v2 on medRxiv
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The study received ethical approval from the Institutional Review Board at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04445233).
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 8 and SAS 9.4 (Cary, NC).
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04445233Active, not recruitingCOVID-19 Household Transmission Study

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  4. Version published to 10.1101/2021.02.18.21251999v1 on medRxiv