COVID-19 Kenya Testing for SARS-CoV-2 - PCR method Date: 15 April 2020
Name / Site Location Contact Platform Test Cost/test Comment In-house: $100 charge for reagents & Belin not cost per test Prof. Omu Anzala ABI 7500 protocol* Batch of 40 Kenya AIDS Vaccine Nairobi Dr.Moses Masika samples Initiative (KAVI) [email protected] ABI 7500 Sacace kit Commercial kits plans ?? to use ….. but not GeneXpert Cephid Test started as yet CFX Cost revised Lancet Laboratories Nairobi Dr.Ahmed Kalebi One-touch Seegene $85 downward PCR platform Actively testing AMPATH Moi University Dr. Edwin Were ,Obs/Gyn Roche RT- MOH site: for contacts Teaching and Referral Eldoret
Mombasa HIV/STI AllplexTM PCR Seegene Mombasa Dr.Scott McClelland ~ $65 -70 Research laboratory platform 2019 nCoV Assay Dr.Charles Nyaigoti Jenn communicated CNyaigoti@kemri- with Isabella on 3/30 KEMRI Welcome Trust wellcome.org but no response as yet Kilifi ?? RT-PCR ?? Research Laboratory Isabella Lynette Ochola on details LiOchola@kemri- wellcome.org Agakhan Unviersity and Dr.Revathi Gunturu RealStar® SARS-CoV-2 Can only handle 20 Teaching Hospital Nairobi
** protocol developed by Charite in Berlin, Germany. We check for the E-gene (pan-corona) as well as the RdRp Gene (SARS-CoV-2 specific) using the primers described here: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045