Published in

Wiley Open Access, Global Challenges, 11(5), 2021

DOI: 10.1002/gch2.202100039

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

On‐Site, On‐Demand 3D‐Printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs to Improve the Access of Coronavirus Disease‐19 Testing

This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

AbstractDiagnostic testing that facilitates containment, surveillance, and treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), or future respiratory viruses, depends on a sample collection device that efficiently collects nasopharyngeal tissue and that can be manufactured on site when an outbreak or public health emergency is declared by a government. Here two novel stereolithography‐based three‐dimensional (3D)‐printed nasopharyngeal swabs are reported which are made using a biocompatible and sterilizable photoresist. Such swabs are readily manufactured on‐site and on‐demand to ensure availability, if supply chain shortages emerge. Additionally, the 3D‐printed swabs easily adapt to current workflow and testing procedures in hospital clinical laboratories to allow for effortless scaling up of test kits. Finally, the 3D‐printed nasopharyngeal swabs demonstrate concordant SARS‐CoV‐2 testing results between the 3D‐printed swabs and the COPAN commercial swabs, and enable detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in clinical samples obtained from autopsies.