Szobi, Adrián http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4543-7954
Buranovská, Katarína http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5223-3461
Vojtaššáková, Nina
Lovíšek, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-3504
Özbaşak, Halil Önder http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-6354
Szeibeczederová, Sandra
Kapustian, Liudmyla
Hudáčová, Zuzana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4419-4786
Kováčová, Viera http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4581-4254
Drobná, Diana
Putaj, Piotr
Bírová, Stanislava http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-8868
Čirková, Ivana
Čarnecký, Martin
Kilián, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5237-9994
Jurkáček, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7921
Čabanová, Viktória http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-9362
Boršová, Kristína http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1086-3219
Sláviková, Monika http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7617-5067
Vaňová, Veronika
Klempa, Boris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6931-1224
Čekan, Pavol http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8806-9958
Paul, Evan D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-8050
Article History
Received: 20 January 2023
Accepted: 20 February 2023
First Online: 2 March 2023
Competing interests
: A.S., K.Bur., N.V., D.L., H.Ö.Ö., S.S., L.K., V.K., D.D., P.P., S.B., I.Č., M.Č., P.K., P.Č., and E.D.P. are employees of MultiplexDX, a biotechnology company that developed and commercialized the Vivid COVID-19 LAMP Direct G diagnostic kit (ExternalRef removed, MultiplexDX, s.r.o., Bratislava, Slovakia), which is based on the research presented in the manuscript. P.Č., E.D.P., A.S., N.V., and K.Bur. are inventors and MultiplexDX, s.r.o is the assignee on patent applications that were filed in relation to the technology and research outlined in the manuscript. B.K. is a Head of the Department of Virus Ecology, Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS). BMC SAS has entered into a collaboration with MultiplexDX, s.r.o. for the development and validation of the RT-LAMP test for routine detection of SARS-CoV-2 that is described in this study. All other authors declare no competing interests.