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Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a glo...

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Autores principales: Bird, Paul William, Taylor, Georgina, Cafferata, Jessica, Gardener, Judi, McMurray, Claire L., Fletcher, Oliver, Toovey, Oliver T. R., Holmes, Christopher W., Tang, Julian W.
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9609557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36298788
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14102233
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author Bird, Paul William
Taylor, Georgina
Cafferata, Jessica
Gardener, Judi
McMurray, Claire L.
Fletcher, Oliver
Toovey, Oliver T. R.
Holmes, Christopher W.
Tang, Julian W.
author_facet Bird, Paul William
Taylor, Georgina
Cafferata, Jessica
Gardener, Judi
McMurray, Claire L.
Fletcher, Oliver
Toovey, Oliver T. R.
Holmes, Christopher W.
Tang, Julian W.
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description UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a global pandemic; NHS laboratories responded rapidly to upscale their testing capabilities. To date, there is little information on the impact of increased SARS-CoV-2 screening on non-SARS-CoV-2 testing within NHS laboratories. This report details the virology test requests received by the Leicester-based NHS Virology laboratory from January 2018 to May 2022. Data show that in spite of a dramatic increase in screening, along with multiple logistic and staffing issues, the Leicester Virology Department was mostly able to maintain the same level of service for non-respiratory virus testing while meeting the new increase in SARS-CoV-2 testing.
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spelling pubmed-96095572022-10-28 Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Bird, Paul William Taylor, Georgina Cafferata, Jessica Gardener, Judi McMurray, Claire L. Fletcher, Oliver Toovey, Oliver T. R. Holmes, Christopher W. Tang, Julian W. Viruses Brief Report UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a global pandemic; NHS laboratories responded rapidly to upscale their testing capabilities. To date, there is little information on the impact of increased SARS-CoV-2 screening on non-SARS-CoV-2 testing within NHS laboratories. This report details the virology test requests received by the Leicester-based NHS Virology laboratory from January 2018 to May 2022. Data show that in spite of a dramatic increase in screening, along with multiple logistic and staffing issues, the Leicester Virology Department was mostly able to maintain the same level of service for non-respiratory virus testing while meeting the new increase in SARS-CoV-2 testing. MDPI 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9609557/ /pubmed/36298788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14102233 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tang, Julian W.
Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_full Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_fullStr Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_short Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_sort performing under pressure: insights into the diagnostic testing burden at a uk national health service clinical virology laboratory during the sars-cov-2 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9609557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36298788
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