Immune response to COVID-19 infection: a double-edged sword

N Saad, S Moussa - Immunological medicine, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 global pandemic has not ceased to spread worldwide since December 2019.
Today, scientists and healthcare workers are urgently working to stop this viral invasion and …

Optimal diagnostic test allocation strategy during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond

J Du, LJ Beesley, S Lee, X Zhou… - Statistics in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Timely diagnostic testing for active SARS‐CoV‐2 viral infections is key to controlling the
spread of the virus and preventing severe disease. A central public health challenge is …

Testing Antigens, Antibodies, and Immune Cells in COVID-19 as a Public Health Topic—Experience and Outlines

M Neagu, C Constantin, M Surcel - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The current COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an accelerated pace in all research domains,
including reliable diagnostics methodology. Molecular diagnostics of the virus and its …

Examining the association between reported COVID-19 symptoms and testing for COVID-19 in Canada: a cross-sectional survey

R Pongou, BO Ahinkorah, MC Mabeu, A Agarwal… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Studies on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic through testing have
been conducted in countries that have been hardest hit by this pandemic. Considering the …

Rapid detection of DNA and RNA shrimp viruses using CRISPR-based diagnostics

SR Major, MJ Harke, R Cruz-Flores… - Applied and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Timely detection of persistent and emerging pathogens is critical to controlling disease
spread, particularly in high-density populations with increased contact between individuals …

Development of lateral flow immunochromatographic test for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus antigens in clinical specimens

RH Sayed, MS Abousenna, SA Elsaady, R Soliman… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the presented study, we developed a nanogold lateral glow immunoassay-based
technique (LFI-COVID-19 antigen test) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid …

Laboratory evaluation links some false-positive COVID-19 antigen test results observed in a field study to a specific lot of test strips

AM Carter, A Viloria Winnett, AE Romano… - Open Forum …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
During a household-transmission field study using COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests
(Ag-RDT), a common test strip lot was identified among 3 participants with false-positive …

[HTML][HTML] Host transcriptional responses in nasal swabs identify potential SARS-CoV-2 infection in PCR negative patients

AM Saravia-Butler, JC Schisler, D Taylor, A Beheshti… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
We analyzed RNA sequencing data from nasal swabs used for SARS-CoV-2 testing. 13% of
317 PCR-negative samples contained over 100 reads aligned to multiple regions of the …

Pivoting novel exosome-based technologies for the detection of SARS-CoV-2

C Happel, C Peñalber-Johnstone, DA Tagle - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics
(RADx) initiative to meet the needs for COVID-19 diagnostic and surveillance testing, and to …

COVID-19 and Dentistry

H Devlin, P Soltani - Encyclopedia, 2021 - mdpi.com
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