Journal article
Pandemic printing: a novel 3D-printed swab for detecting SARS-CoV-2
Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Nicole Isles, Brian Chong, Douglas Johnson, Julian Druce, Tuyet Hoang, Susan A Ballard, Victoria Hall, Stephen Muhi, Kirsty L Buising, Seok Lim, Dick Strugnell, Mike Catton, Louis B Irving, Benjamin P Howden, Eric Bert, Deborah A Williamson
Medical Journal of Australia | WILEY | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.50726
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To design and evaluate 3D-printed nasal swabs for collection of samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing. DESIGN: An iterative design process was employed. Laboratory evaluation included in vitro assessment of mock nasopharyngeal samples spiked with two different concentrations of gamma-irradiated SARS-CoV-2. A prospective clinical study compared SARS-CoV-2 and human cellular material recovery by 3D-printed swabs and standard nasopharyngeal swabs. SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Royal Melbourne Hospital, May 2020. Participants in the clinical evaluation were 50 hospital staff members attending a COVID-19 screening clinic and two inpatients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. INTERVENTION: In the cl..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
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Funding Acknowledgements
Deborah Williamson is supported by an Investigator Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (APP1174555). Benjamin Hovvden is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (APP1105905). Katherine Bond is supported by an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship (GNT1191321). Our work was supported by a grant from the NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund (APP2002317). 3DMEDiTech had no role in the design or conduct of the laboratory or clinical study.