A faster and less costly alternative for RNA extraction of SARS-CoV-2 using proteinase k treatment followed by thermal shock

• Adolfo Marcelo Ñique ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  * E-mail: adolfo.marcelo.n@gmail.com

  Affiliation National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru

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• Fiorella Coronado-Marquina,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru

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• Jairo Andrés Mendez Rico,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pan American Health Organization–PAHO, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• María Paquita García Mendoza,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru

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• Nancy Rojas-Serrano,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru

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• Paulo Vitor Marques Simas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos–UNMSM), Lima, Peru

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2241-6915

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• Cesar Cabezas Sanchez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation National Institute of Health–INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud–INS), Lima, Peru

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• Jan Felix Drexler

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

  Affiliation Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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