Saliva molecular testing bypassing RNA extraction is suitable for monitoring and diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

• Marta Alenquer,

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

  Affiliation Cell Biology of Viral Infection Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3062-1222

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• Tiago Milheiro Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Milheiro Silva, Onome Akpogheneta

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Onome Akpogheneta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Milheiro Silva, Onome Akpogheneta

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

  Affiliation Lymphocyte Physiology Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Filipe Ferreira,

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

  Affiliation Cell Biology of Viral Infection Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Sílvia Vale-Costa,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cell Biology of Viral Infection Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Mónica Medina-Lopes,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cell Biology of Viral Infection Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Frederico Batista,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine 4, Hospital Prof Doutor Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6324-9300

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• Ana Margarida Garcia,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Vasco M. Barreto,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CEDOC NOVA, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Nova Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Cathy Paulino,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• João Costa,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• João Sobral,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Maria Diniz-da-Costa,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Susana Ladeiro,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Rita Corte-Real,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pathology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal

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• José Delgado Alves,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Medicine 4, Hospital Prof Doutor Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal, CEDOC NOVA, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Nova Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Ricardo B. Leite,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9622-3895

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• Jocelyne Demengeot,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lymphocyte Physiology Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Maria João Rocha Brito,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Maria João Amorim

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mjamorim@igc.gulbenkian.pt

  Affiliation Cell Biology of Viral Infection Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-6659

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