The nasopharyngeal swab is a gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However, the
inconvenience of this method compelled us to compare its efficiency with saliva and gargle …

Background: Laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection (the cause of COVID-19) uses
PCR to detect viral RNA (vRNA) in respiratory samples. SARS-CoV-2 RNA has also been …

Background To investigate the transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 via blood, we conducted
retrospective molecular screening in blood donated during the first pandemic peak in the …

Correct and reliable identification of SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 suspected patients is
essential for diagnosis. Respiratory samples should always be tested with real-time PCR for …

Background The SARS-CoV-2 infection continues to ravage the global community since it
was declared a pandemic. The socio-demographic and clinical characteristics defining the …

Management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires widespread
testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A main limitation …

Just over three months after the diagnosis of the first cases in the city of Wuhan, in the Hubei
province of China, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has become one of the most serious global …

Introduction: Accurate detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is
critical for diagnosis and disease status evaluation of Coronavirus disease 2019. We …

Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, our knowledge of the clinical implications of
infection with SARS-CoV-2 has steadily grown. The clinical spectrum of COVID-19 is broad …

The current study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG (S-protein)
antibodies along with neutralizing assay (RBD-domain) among the whole blood donors …