Practical considerations to establish a validated platform for pooled detection of SARS-CoV-2 by droplet digital PCR

• Sofía Heckel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sofía Heckel, Antonella Pacini

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

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Instituto de Inmunología Clínica y Experimental de Rosario (IDICER-CONICET), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas de Rosario (FBioyF), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Antonella Pacini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sofía Heckel, Antonella Pacini

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

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Instituto de Inmunología Clínica y Experimental de Rosario (IDICER-CONICET), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Franco Paredes ,

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

  ¶‡ FP, MVP, MP, NA and GI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas de Rosario (FBioyF), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-0367

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• Ma. Victoria Petreli ,

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

  ¶‡ FP, MVP, MP, NA and GI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas de Rosario (FBioyF), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Marilina Perez ,

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

  ¶‡ FP, MVP, MP, NA and GI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Natalia Adriani ,

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

  ¶‡ FP, MVP, MP, NA and GI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Guadalupe Ibarra ,

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

  ¶‡ FP, MVP, MP, NA and GI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas de Rosario (FBioyF), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

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• Hugo Menzella,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Procesos Biotecnológicos y Químicos Rosario (IPROByQ), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-2400

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• Alejandro Colaneri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Juliana Sesma

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

  * E-mail: sesma@rosario-conicet.gov.ar

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Department, Hospital Provincial de Rosario (HPR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Instituto de Inmunología Clínica y Experimental de Rosario (IDICER-CONICET), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (FCM-UNR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-3616

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