Evaluation of the analytical performance and specificity of a SARS-CoV-2 transcription-mediated amplification assay.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The University Hospital Tuebingen (Thomas Iftner) received an unconditional research grant from Hologic for a longitudinal study on a comparison of HPV tests for cervical cancer screening in the past. The other authors report no conflict of interest. Hologic sponsored the first 250 tests of the evaluation study; otherwise the study was financed by institutional funds of the Virology Department of the University Hospital Tuebingen. Hologic did not have any influence on the scientific data interpretation or content of the submitted manuscript."

"Markus Schneider: Data curation, Investigation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing - original draft. Thomas Iftner: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing. Tina Ganzenmueller: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Supervision, Writing - review & editing. The University Hospital Tuebingen (Thomas Iftner) received an unconditional research grant from Hologic for a longitudinal study on a comparison of HPV tests for cervical cancer screening in the past. The other authors report no conflict of interest. Hologic sponsored the first 250 tests of the evaluation study; otherwise the study was financed by institutional funds of the Virology Department of the University Hospital Tuebingen. Hologic did not have any influence on the scientific data interpretation or content of the submitted manuscript."