About the Authors

Francesco Elia Marino

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

francescoelia.marino@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Prime Discoveries INC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eric Proffitt

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Prime Discoveries INC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eugene Joseph

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Prime Discoveries INC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arun Manoharan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Prime Discoveries INC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Prime Covid DetectTM Rapid Detection Assay is offered as a catalog item at Prime Discoveries Inc. The pipeline used for the SARS-CoV-2 detection in clinical samples using an RNA-extraction less protocol and RT-LAMP (Prime Covid DetectTM Rapid Detection Assay) is part of the patent application number 63/185,571 “An isothermal amplification system and method of use of the same for detecting pathogenic infection in a subject” (patent status: pending). The Prime Covid DetectTM Rapid Detection kit (cat# PRDICOV Prime Discoveries) is registered as In Vitro Medical Device in the European Union - CE approval (Certificate number: 2022-IVD/CE356). None of the points above alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.