The Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL) compared the RealStar® SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit 1.0 with the widely used E gene and RdRp assays published by the German Consiliary Laboratory for Coronaviruses hosted at the Charité in Berlin. In this study, the RealStar® SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit 1.0 performed equally or better than the two other tested real-time PCR systems.
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