Highly sensitive scent-detection of COVID-19 patients in vivo by trained dogs.

Highly sensitive scent-detection of COVID-19 patients in vivo by trained dogs.

Timely and accurate diagnostics are essential to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but no test satisfies both conditions. Dogs can scent-identify the unique odors of volatile organic compounds generated during infection by interrogating specimens or, ideally, the body of a patient. After training 6 dogs...

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Main Authors: Omar Vesga, Maria Agudelo, Andrés F Valencia-Jaramillo, Alejandro Mira-Montoya, Felipe Ossa-Ospina, Esteban Ocampo, Karl Čiuoderis, Laura Pérez, Andrés Cardona, Yudy Aguilar, Yuli Agudelo, Juan P Hernández-Ortiz, Jorge E Osorio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257474

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