Comparison of the new fully automated extraction platform eMAG to the MagNA PURE 96 and the well-established easyMAG for detection of common human respiratory viruses

• Musa Hindiyeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Musa Hindiyeh, Orna Mor

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Orna Mor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Musa Hindiyeh, Orna Mor

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-4226

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• Rakefet Pando,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Israel Ministry of Health, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

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• Batya Mannasse,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Areej Kabat,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Hadar Assraf-Zarfati,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Ella Mendelson,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Danit Sofer,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Michal Mandelboim

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

  * E-mail: michalman@sheba.health.gov.il

  Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-7241

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