COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests
The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has created a global alarming situation. Initially, diagnosis of the virus was conducted by a combination of different assays including; electron microscopy (EM),...
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| description | The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has created a global alarming situation. Initially, diagnosis of the virus was
conducted by a combination of different assays including; electron microscopy (EM), computed tomography (CT)
scan and whole-genome sequencing. However, such time-consuming diagnosis has critically highlighted the need
for a fast and specific testing approach for earlier detection. It is expected that the ongoing research advances and
the continuing efforts for the fight against COVID-19 will soon bring a fruitful discovery in in vitro diagnostics
techniques. Meanwhile, the efficiency and performance of any novel diagnostic approach should be censoriously
analyzed before it comes into practice. The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the different
diagnostic tests recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for earlier detection of the novel SARSCoV-2. We found that the Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic sequence (CRISPR/Cas) detection
has relatively higher efficiency, compared to all the other tests. Therefore from this report, we concluded that the
discovery of CRISPR/Cas based in vitro diagnostics will minimize the time limit as well as the cost for COVID19 detection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c913720697d44469aa651eef2f2f33c72024-04-16T19:25:45ZengThe National Information and Documentation Centre (NIDOC) , EgyptNovel Research in Microbiology Journal2537-02862537-02942020-08-014486888310.21608/nrmj.2020.107539COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic testsMati Ullah0Muhammad Ibrar1Salah Uddin Khan2Habib Ullah3Nasir Ali Khan4Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, PakistanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, PakistanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, PakistanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, PakistanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, PakistanThe emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has created a global alarming situation. Initially, diagnosis of the virus was conducted by a combination of different assays including; electron microscopy (EM), computed tomography (CT) scan and whole-genome sequencing. However, such time-consuming diagnosis has critically highlighted the need for a fast and specific testing approach for earlier detection. It is expected that the ongoing research advances and the continuing efforts for the fight against COVID-19 will soon bring a fruitful discovery in in vitro diagnostics techniques. Meanwhile, the efficiency and performance of any novel diagnostic approach should be censoriously analyzed before it comes into practice. The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the different diagnostic tests recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for earlier detection of the novel SARSCoV-2. We found that the Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic sequence (CRISPR/Cas) detection has relatively higher efficiency, compared to all the other tests. Therefore from this report, we concluded that the discovery of CRISPR/Cas based in vitro diagnostics will minimize the time limit as well as the cost for COVID19 detection.https://nrmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_107539_12dabc241390f960f067c6e1f9ba446e.pdfsars-cov-2pandemicin vitro diagnosticscovid-19crispr/cas |
| spellingShingle | Mati Ullah Muhammad Ibrar Salah Uddin Khan Habib Ullah Nasir Ali Khan COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests Novel Research in Microbiology Journal sars-cov-2 pandemic in vitro diagnostics covid-19 crispr/cas |
| title | COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| title_full | COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| title_fullStr | COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| title_short | COVID-19 detection: Comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| title_sort | covid 19 detection comparison and accuracy of several diagnostic tests |
| topic | sars-cov-2 pandemic in vitro diagnostics covid-19 crispr/cas |
| url | https://nrmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_107539_12dabc241390f960f067c6e1f9ba446e.pdf |
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