Comparison of Copan ESwab and FLOQSwab for COVID-19 Diagnosis: Working around a Supply Shortage

J Clin Microbiol. 2020 May 26;58(6):e00669-20. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00669-20. Print 2020 May 26.

Christie Vermeiren^#^{1

2}, Xavier Marchand-Senécal^#³, Elena Sheldrake⁴, David Bulir^{5

6}, Marek Smieja^{5

6}, Sylvia Chong⁶, Jessica D Forbes², Kevin Katz^{4

2

3}

¹ Shared Hospital Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada cvermeiren@shn.ca.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Shared Hospital Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; diagnostic microbiology; molecular diagnostic; public health.

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