Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread to nearly every
corner of the globe, causing societal instability. The resultant coronavirus disease 2019 …

SUMMARY majority of patients tend to have a mild illness, a minority of patients develop
severe hypoxia requiring hospitalization and mechanical ventilation. Management is mostly …

Eloise Williams, a Katherine Bond, a Bowen Zhang, a Mark Putland, b Deborah A.
Williamson a, c aDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne …

Rapid and accurate SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing is essential for controlling the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic. The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis is real-time RT …

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 Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can unknowingly spread
the virus to several people during the early subclinical period. Methods We evaluated the …

Objectives Automated point-of-care molecular assays have greatly shortened the turnaround
time of respiratory virus testing. One of the major bottlenecks now lies at the specimen …

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection is critical to reduce asymptomatic and
presymptomatic transmission, curb the spread of variants, and maximize treatment efficacy …

Testing efforts for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have
been burdened by the scarcity of testing materials and personal protective equipment for …

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 …