[HTML][HTML] Diagnostics for COVID-19: moving from pandemic response to control

RW Peeling, DL Heymann, YY Teo, PJ Garcia - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Diagnostics have proven to be crucial to the COVID-19 pandemic response. There are three
major methods for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection and their role has evolved during …

Diagnostic performance of different sampling approaches for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing: a systematic review and meta-analysis

NNY Tsang, HC So, KY Ng, BJ Cowling… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The comparative performance of different clinical sampling methods for
diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection by RT-PCR among populations with suspected infection …

[HTML][HTML] Saliva as a gold-standard sample for SARS-CoV-2 detection

SH Tan, O Allicock, M Armstrong-Hough… - The Lancet …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As COVID-19 continues to strain public health systems and vaccination programmes race
against new variants that might be more transmissible or capable of evading immune …

Low-cost, user-friendly, all-integrated smartphone-based microplate reader for optical-based biological and chemical analyses

JF Bergua, R Alvarez-Diduk, A Idili, C Parolo… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The quantitative detection of different molecular targets is of utmost importance for a variety
of human activities, ranging from healthcare to environmental studies. Bioanalytical methods …

Aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 due to the chimney effect in two high-rise housing drainage stacks

Q Wang, Y Li, DC Lung, PT Chan, CH Dung… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stack aerosols are generated within vertical building drainage stacks during the discharge
of wastewater containing feces and exhaled mucus from toilets and washbasins. Fifteen …

Comparison of saliva and midturbinate swabs for detection of SARS-CoV-2

J Lai, J German, F Hong, SHS Tai… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Saliva is an attractive sample for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However, contradictory reports
exist concerning the sensitivity of saliva versus nasal swabs. We followed close contacts of …

Aerosol-jet-printed graphene electrochemical immunosensors for rapid and label-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva

CC Pola, SV Rangnekar, R Sheets… - 2D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid, inexpensive, and easy-to-use coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) home tests are
key tools in addition to vaccines in the world wide fight to eliminate national and local …

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern Alpha and Delta show increased viral load in saliva

KL King, S Wilson, JM Napolitano, KJ Sell, L Rennert… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Higher viral loads in SARS-CoV-2 infections may be linked to more rapid
spread of emerging variants of concern (VOC). Rapid detection and isolation of cases with …

Microfluidic affinity selection of active SARS-CoV-2 virus particles

SST Gamage, TN Pahattuge, H Wijerathne… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
We report a microfluidic assay to select active severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral particles (VPs), which were defined as intact particles with …

Initial analysis of viral dynamics and circulating viral variants during the mRNA-1273 Phase 3 COVE trial

R Pajon, YD Paila, B Girard, G Dixon, K Kacena… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The mRNA-1273 vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) demonstrated 93.2%
efficacy in reduction of symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …