Introduction Early detection of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is paramount for
controlling the progression and spread of the disease. Currently, nasopharyngeal swabbing …

Objective This systematic review aims to describe the value of saliva as a noninvasive
sample for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Background: COVID-19 is a serious and potentially deadly disease. Early diagnosis of
infected individuals will play an important role in stopping its further escalation. The present …

Background. Since the beginning of the pandemic, clinicians and researchers have been
searching for alternative tests to improve the screening and diagnosis of the SARS‐CoV‐2 …

Objectives This scoping review aims to summarize the diagnostic value of saliva assessed
from current studies that (1) compare its performance in reverse transcriptase‐polymerase …

Background Salivary tests for the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis have been
suggested as alternative methods for the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal tests. Method …

Introduction Molecular diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 infection characteristically involves the
sampling of the throat or nasopharyngeal swab (NPS). However, these procedures are …

Objectives There remain challenges in using SARS-CoV-2 RNA diagnostic assays in the
respiratory tract in a pandemic. More so certain countries such as Hong Kong have already …

The accepted gold standard for diagnosing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the detection
of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA from …

Background: From the begging months of 2020 a severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, also called 2019-nCoV) caused a devastating global outbreak …