Covid -19 Environmental and Surfacing testing development

Covid -19 环境和表面测试开发

• 批准号: 58246
• 金额: $ 9.18万
• 依托单位: ANDERSEN CALEDONIA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=58246
• 关键词: Covid; 19; Environmental; Surfacing; testing

Andersen Caledonia's project is to expand our Coronavirus (CV) environmental testing capability beyond hospitals to benefit the wider community. Recent published data has shown that this Coronavirus(Covid-19) can survive on surfaces for many days depending on environmental conditions: e.g. A set of tests on the cruise ship the Diamond Princess found the virus 17 days after all passengers and crew had left. It is not known how common the transmission of the CV is via surfaces but the possibility of transmission from surface to hand to mouth has been shown.By providing testing information to organisations such as GP surgeries, care homes, pharmacists, supermarkets, bus fleet owners, dentists and possibly to student residences, we can enable them to ensure that their facilities stay clean of the virus as far as possible. It is much better that we keep especially high-risk people free of the virus than to work tirelessly to try and save them post-infection. We also need to make everyone feel that they can live their life in social isolation without it becoming a prison.The testing market will be smaller than initially planned as it has become clear that testing needs to be integrated with closing down outbreaks and not as a general test. This is most important in hospital settings where around 15% of all fatal infections have occurred.As a project extension and to accelerate commercial application we consider that combining human and surface testing will allow a more comprehensive outbreak track and trace system as done in Asia but not so far in Europe.Testing for CV in the environment requires the collection of samples using swabs from high risk surfaces. The swabs are then transported in cool boxes back to our laboratory for testing using a QPCR machine. This machine can look for exactly the DNA/RNA of COVID-19 virus and can identify as little as 100 strands. A single human cell has 92 strands of DNA / RNA.Andersen Caledonia are already a key supplier to the NHS: sterilising gowns and testing hospitals for environmental contamination. Our two testing laboratories are UKAS accredited and serve the whole of the UK. Testing for CV is not without risks to the staff, but our whole team have enthusiastically given their time to develop our capability and we have carefully minimised risks.In addition to our staff we have been able to build our testing service within a matter of weeks due to the invaluable support of our supply base. I am pleased to say that our whole supply base of swabs, viral transport media, QPCR machine and reagents has been sourced from UK manufacturers. We thank them for their support !

Andersen Caledonia的项目是将我们的冠状病毒（CV）环境测试能力扩展到医院之外，以造福更广泛的社区。最近公布的数据表明，这种冠状病毒（Covid-19）可以在表面上存活许多天，这取决于环境条件：例如，在所有乘客和船员离开后17天，对钻石公主号游轮进行的一系列测试发现了病毒。目前尚不清楚CV通过表面传播的常见程度，但已显示出通过表面经手经口传播的可能性。通过向全科医生诊所、护理院、药剂师、超市、巴士车队所有者、牙医以及可能的学生宿舍等机构提供检测信息，我们可以使他们能够确保其设施尽可能保持病毒清洁。我们最好让特别高危的人远离病毒，而不是不知疲倦地努力在感染后拯救他们。我们还需要让每个人都感到，他们可以在社会隔离中生活，而不会成为监狱。检测市场将比最初计划的要小，因为已经很清楚，检测需要与关闭疫情相结合，而不是作为一种通用检测。这在医院环境中是最重要的，大约15%的致命感染发生在医院环境中。作为项目扩展和加速商业应用，我们认为将人体和表面检测相结合将允许更全面的爆发跟踪和追溯系统，就像在亚洲所做的那样，但目前还没有在欧洲完成。环境中的CV检测需要使用来自高风险表面的拭子收集样本。然后将拭子放在冷藏箱中运送回我们的实验室，使用QPCR机器进行检测。这台机器可以准确地寻找COVID-19病毒的DNA/RNA，并且可以识别100条链。一个人体细胞有92股DNA / RNA。Andersen Caledonia已经是NHS的主要供应商：消毒长袍和检测医院的环境污染。我们的两个测试实验室获得UKAS认证，服务于整个英国。CV测试对员工来说并非没有风险，但我们的整个团队都热情地投入时间来发展我们的能力，我们已经小心地将风险降到最低。除了我们的员工之外，由于我们供应基地的宝贵支持，我们能够在几周内建立我们的测试服务。我很高兴地说，我们的拭子、病毒运输培养基、QPCR机器和试剂的整个供应基地都来自英国制造商。我们感谢他们的支持！