Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

ABSTRACT Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the subsequent limitations on
standard diagnostics, has vastly expanded the user base of Reverse Transcription Loop …

Nucleic acid detection methods based on CRISPR and isothermal amplification techniques
show great potential for point-of-care diagnostic applications. However, most current …

To the Editor, Rapid antigen detection tests (RADT) targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid
protein (NP) displaying a sensitivity over 80% have been proven useful for early diagnosis of …

Nucleic acid amplification diagnostics offer outstanding features of sensitivity and specificity.
However, they still lack speed and robustness, require extensive infrastructure, and are …

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 610 million cases have been diagnosed
and it has caused over 6.5 million deaths worldwide. The crisis has forced the scientific …

The respiratory tract is the main infection site for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), resulting in many admissions to intensive care centers in …

Abstract SARS-CoV-2 viral-load measurements from a single-specimen type are used to
establish diagnostic strategies, interpret clinical-trial results for vaccines and therapeutics …

Importance Self-or health care worker (HCW)–collected nasal swab specimens are the
preferred sampling method to perform rapid antigen testing for COVID-19, but it is debated …

Objective To analyse the impact of voluntary rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 antigen in
Liverpool city on covid-19 related hospital admissions. Design Synthetic control analysis …