Abstract
IntroductionRecently, a local cluster epidemic has occurred in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Failure to promptly identify patients with fever in rural areas was the major reason for this epidemic.MethodsWe presented the field evaluation of a new real-time reverse transcription recombinase-aided amplification (RT-RAA) kit incorporating an endogenous internal control in a single-tube format, completed at the Hebei CDC from January 17, 2021 to January 27, 2021.ResultsWe evaluated the diagnostic performance of RT-RAA assay using automatic extracted RNA of 808 clinical samples. Compared with reverse transcriptase real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR), RT-RAA kit achieved 92.41% sensitivity, 98.78% specificity and a 96.29% coincidence rate, demonstrating an excellent agreement between the RT-RAA assay and qRT-PCR assay. Furthermore, 58 samples were extracted using a manual extraction method within 5 minutes, but only samples with high nucleic acid concentration (cycle threshold value not higher than 32) could be stably detected.DiscussionThe RT-RAA is more suitable to meet the needs of rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection in community-level medical institutions.
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