Portable and accurate diagnostics for COVID-19: Combined use of the miniPCR thermocycler and a well-plate reader for SARS-CoV-2 virus detection

Everardo González-González; Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago; Itzel Montserrat Lara-Mayorga; Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa; Mario Moisés Alvarez

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237418

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Portable and accurate diagnostics for COVID-19: Combined use of the miniPCR thermocycler and a well-plate reader for SARS-CoV-2 virus detection

Everardo González-González,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
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Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago,

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

Affiliations Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, Departamento de Ingeniería Mecátrónica y Eléctrica, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
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Itzel Montserrat Lara-Mayorga,

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

Affiliations Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
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Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa,

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Mecátrónica y Eléctrica, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-1166

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Mario Moisés Alvarez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mario.alvarez@tec.mx

Affiliations Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9131-5344

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Portable and accurate diagnostics for COVID-19: Combined use of the miniPCR thermocycler and a well-plate reader for SARS-CoV-2 virus detection

Everardo González-González,
Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago,
Itzel Montserrat Lara-Mayorga,
Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa,
Mario Moisés Alvarez

Published: August 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237418

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