Total nucleic acid extraction for pathogen detection. The MagSi-NA Pathogens kit allows cost-effective extraction of DNA and RNA from a variety of sample materials like serum, plasma, oropharyngeal swab / nasopharyngeal swab, or any other respiratory samples. Purified total nucleic acids can be used for qPCR based or any other enzymatic pathogen detection method. The ready-to-use reagents and simple protocol are convenient in use and easy to automate. The included MagSi-PA VII magnetic beads are optimized for fast separation even from viscous sample lysates.