Improved sensitivity, safety, and rapidity of COVID-19 tests by replacing viral storage solution with lysis buffer

• Oran Erster,

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

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

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• Omer Shkedi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Gil Benedek,

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

  Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Eyal Zilber,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Itay Varkovitzky,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Rachel Shirazi,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

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

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• Dorit Oriya Shorka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Yuval Cohen,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Tzahi Bar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Israel

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• Rafi Yechieli,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Israel

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• Michal Tepperberg Oikawa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

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

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• Dana Venkert,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Michal Linial,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Esther Oiknine-Djian,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Michal Mandelboim,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

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

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• Zvi Livneh,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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• Gilat Shenhav-Saltzman,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Ella Mendelson,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

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

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• Dana Wolf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Moran Szwarcwort-Cohen,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Virology Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

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• Orna Mor,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Yair Lewis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2546-4560

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• Danny Zeevi

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

  * E-mail: dzeevi@edu.hac.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6901-3737

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