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UArizona researchers image a sample using a smartphone microscope. Credit: UArizona Biosensors LabUArizona researchers image a sample using a smartphone microscope. Credit: UArizona Biosensors Lab

 

Jan. 29, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes.

 

The UArizona research team, led by biomedical engineering professor Jeong-Yeol Yoon, aims to combine the speed of existing nasal swab antigen tests with the high accuracy of nasal swab PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, tests. The researchers are adapting an inexpensive method that they originally created to detect norovirus -- the microbe famous for spreading on cruise ships -- using a smartphone microscope.

 

They plan to use the method in conjunction with a saline swish-gargle test developed by Michael Worobey, head of the UArizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and associate director of the University of Arizona BIO5 Institute.

 

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