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AmpTec Universal COVID-19 Positive Control IVT RNA EURM-019

Apr 03, 2020

AmpTec has released a Universal COVID-19 Positive Control IVT RNA, called EURM-019, to facilitate quality control of the detection of SARS-CoV-2 at core facilities and hospital laboratories. The EURM-019 material consists of single-stranded RNA fragments of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and can also serve as a benchmark to validate SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests kits in development. AmpTec is supplying the control on behalf of the European Commission.

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