As a more efficient and effective way to address disease diagnosis and intervention, cutting-
edge technologies, devices, therapeutic approaches, and practices have emerged within the …

PCR diagnosis has been considered as the gold standard for coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) and other many diseases. However, there are many problems in using PCR …

Objectives We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the Panbio™ Ag-RDT at primary health
care (PHC) centers and test sites in symptomatic patients and close contacts, using the …

Background The possibility of psychopathological symptoms and related risk factors among
normal persons and patients infected during the outbreak of COVID-19 has been widely …

Assessment of T-cell responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) antigens may be of value to determine long-lasting protection to breakthrough …

Background: Real-time reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-
qPCR) is the reference laboratory method to diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infection then requires …

Objectives Antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDT) have been developed as reliable tools to
control the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The objective of our study was to evaluate the …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly virulent infection that has caused a
pandemic since 2019. Early diagnosis of the disease has been recognized as one of the …

While molecular testing with real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the
gold-standard test for COVID-19 diagnosis and screening, more rapid or affordable …

This study was performed as a head-to-head comparison of the performance characteristics
of (1) two SARS-CoV-2-specific rapid antigen assays with real-time PCR as gold standard …