Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva using a guanidium based transport medium suitable for RT-PCR diagnostic assays

• Sukalyani Banik,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Kaheerman Saibire,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Shraddha Suryavanshi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Glenn Johns,

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

  Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

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• Soumitesh Chakravorty,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

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• Robert Kwiatkowski,

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

  Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

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• David Alland ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David Alland, Padmapriya P. Banada

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: allandda@njms.rutgers.edu (DA); priya.banada@rutgers.edu (PPB)

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-1571

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• Padmapriya P. Banada

  Contributed equally to this work with: David Alland, Padmapriya P. Banada

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

  * E-mail: allandda@njms.rutgers.edu (DA); priya.banada@rutgers.edu (PPB)

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-6142

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