Presentation of the 7 kits used in the study for detecting viruses (see text for correspondence between letters and commercial denominations).

<p>Yes: group of pathogens detected; w diff: with differentiation between types. No: group of pathogens not detected.</p

Practicability of each kit using the NUCLISENS easyMAG as extraction instrument (see text for correspondence between letters and commercial denominations).

<p>Practicability of each kit using the NUCLISENS easyMAG as extraction instrument (see text for correspondence between letters and commercial denominations).</p

Performances of the 6 kits evaluated in this study for a panel of 9 viruses or groups of viruses with reference to the combination of duplex PCR tests (Argene/bioMérieux) used as gold standard.

a<p>Kit having no probe for the detection of HKU1 coronavirus.</p>b<p>Kit having a probe for detecting 229E coronavirus only.</p>c<p>All the tested kits did not detect all the coronavirus types (see notes ^a and ^b).</p

Schematic synopsis of the design of the study.

<p>(See text for correspondence between letters and commercial denominations).</p

List of pathogens that were considered to be present in the panel of the 88 specimens according the combination of duplex PCR tests (Argene/bioMérieux) used as gold standard.

a<p>type 1 (n = 2), type 3 (n = 3) and type 4 (n = 5).</p>b<p>type NL63 (n = 6), type OC43 (n = 8), type 229E (n = 1), type HKU1 (n = 6) and untyped (n = 4).</p