Boršová, Kristína
Paul, Evan D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-8050
Kováčová, Viera http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4581-4254
Radvánszka, Monika
Hajdu, Roman
Čabanová, Viktória http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-9362
Sláviková, Monika
Ličková, Martina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5357-6618
Lukáčiková, Ľubomíra
Belák, Andrej http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6634-0137
Roussier, Lucia
Kostičová, Michaela
Líšková, Anna
Maďarová, Lucia
Štefkovičová, Mária
Reizigová, Lenka
Nováková, Elena
Sabaka, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-8843
Koščálová, Alena
Brejová, Broňa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9483-1766
Staroňová, Edita
Mišík, Matej
Vinař, Tomáš http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-3447
Nosek, Jozef http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1020-5451
Čekan, Pavol
Klempa, Boris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6931-1224
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (COVID-20-0116, PP-COVID-20-0017)
Ministry of Health of Slovakia
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (871029)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2021
Accepted: 28 September 2021
First Online: 14 October 2021
Competing interests
: VK, EDP, MR, RH, and PC are employees of MultiplexDX, a biotechnology company which has commercialized a kit called rTEST COVID-19 B.1.1.7 qPCR kit (ExternalRef removed, MultiplexDX, Inc., Bratislava, Slovakia) that is based on this research. BK is a Head of the Department of Virus Ecology, Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS). MM is a Head of the Insititute for healthcare analyses at the Slovak Ministy of Health. BMC SAS has entered into collaboration with MultiplexDX, Inc. for development and validation of RT-qPCR tests for routine detection of SARS-CoV-2 and the test for detection of B.1.1.7 variant described in this study. The Ministry of Health procured said tests for the B.1.1.7 lineage surveillance. All other authors declare no competing interests.