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Cho, Choi, Hong, and Kang: SARS-CoV2 mutation detection experience using PowerChek SARS-CoV-2 S-gene Mutation Detection Kit
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Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26(3):83-86.

Published online: 20 September 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2023.26.3.6

SARS-CoV2 mutation detection experience using PowerChek SARS-CoV-2 S-gene Mutation Detection Kit

Sun-Mi Cho, Yeon Hee Choi, Seong Geun Hong, Myung Seo Kang

Department of Laboratory Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea

Corresponding author: Myung Seo Kang E-mail: olive@chamc.co.kr;Seong Geun Hong E-mail: hlseo@cha.ac.kr

Received 7 March 2023       Revised 19 July 2023       Accepted 13 August 2023

© Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. All rights reserved.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
[in Korean]

Ethics statement

This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of CHA Bundang Medical Center (No. 202012-020) and the requirement for informed consent was waived.

Conflicts of interest

No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.

Funding

This study was supported by the research grant of the Korea Medical Device Development Project of the Korea Medical Device Development Fund (No.: RS-2020-KD000020).

Funding

This work was supported by the Research Program funded by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017NP280600).

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Table 1
The variant types of real-time PCR observed during this study period (2021.01-2022.03)
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Abbreviation: PCR, polymerase chain reaction; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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