3D-printed nasal swabs may ease supply chain

摘要

A Melbourne company has designed and 3D-printed nasal swabs that have been shown to be the equaL of two commercially available swabs when recovering SARS-CoV-2 in vitro,according to the authors of research published in the Medical Journal of Australia (bit.ly/305JULX).'Rapid upscaling of laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 has led to an acute global shortage of nasal swabs',wrote the authors from the Royal MeLbourne Hospital,Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity,MeLbourne Health,the University of Melbourne,the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory,Austin Health,3DMEDitech and the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory.