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 <[email protected]> Cobas 6800 PCR assay ?? and case testing Hospital KEMRI, CDC Nairobi Dr. Elizabeth Hunsperger Jenn Slyker to email Nairobi ?? ?? Laboratory < [email protected]> ?? and check Cobas 8800 Roche RT- ?? Dr.Clayton Onyango PCR assay MOH site: for contacts KEMRI, CDC Kisumu Kisumu Onyango Clayton WHO –Berlin and case testing Laboratory <[email protected]> RT-7500 kit ?? Jack Ma kit Dr.Jared Mecha Cobas 6800 Roche ?? MOH site: for Prof Jared Mecha’s University of [email protected] contacts/case laboratory (?) PEPFAR Nairobi, UNITID, RealStar® ?? Not initiated testing – Dr. Kibet (Lab director) SARS-CoV-2 funded research Nairobi ABI 7500 plan to use the assay [email protected] RT-PCR Kit for surveillance RUO - Altona PCR assays National & MOH site: (Kits from for contacts and case Prof. Wallace Bullimo KEMRI National Influenza Thermofisher, testing KEMRI, Nairobi <Wallace.Bulimo@usamru- ABI 7500 ?? Center India, Jack Actively testing k.org> Ma and WHO) National & MOH site: National Public Health Umuro Mamo Roche RT- Nairobi Cobas 6800 ?? for contacts and case Laboratories [email protected] PCR assay actively testing Dr.K.Mandaliya / Roche RT- MOH site: for contacts Coast General Hospital Mombasa Cobas 6800 ?? Dr. Scott McClelland PCR assay and case testing 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 <[email protected]> ABI 7500 $110 - 180 RT-PCR Kit tests per run Laboratory RUO - Altona ** 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 .