[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 …

Tools and techniques for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)/COVID-19 detection

SH Safiabadi Tali, JJ LeBlanc, Z Sadiq… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute
respiratory disease coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to millions of confirmed cases and …

Testing at scale during the COVID-19 pandemic

TR Mercer, M Salit - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Assembly and publication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) genome in January 2020 enabled the immediate development of tests to detect the …

Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening

DB Larremore, B Wilder, E Lester, S Shehata… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can
spread from individuals with presymptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic infections, the …

Streamlined inactivation, amplification, and Cas13-based detection of SARS-CoV-2

J Arizti-Sanz, CA Freije, AC Stanton, BA Petros… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that new diagnostic technologies are essential for
controlling disease transmission. Here, we develop SHINE (Streamlined Highlighting of …

Rethinking Covid-19 test sensitivity—a strategy for containment

MJ Mina, R Parker, DB Larremore - New England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity As Covid-19 cases accelerate or plateau around the
world, we urgently need a point-of-care test that is inexpensive enough to use frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of an antigen-based test for asymptomatic and symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 testing at two university campuses—Wisconsin, September–October …

IW Pray - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 - cdc.gov
Compared with real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing,
the Sofia antigen test had a sensitivity of 80.0% and specificity of 98.9% among symptomatic …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection at two community-based testing sites—Pima County, Arizona, November 3–17 …

JL Prince-Guerra - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 - cdc.gov
Sensitivity of the BinaxNOW antigen test, compared with polymerase chain reaction testing,
was lower when used to test specimens from asymptomatic (35.8%) than from symptomatic …

SalivaDirect: A simplified and flexible platform to enhance SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity

CBF Vogels, AE Watkins, CA Harden, DE Brackney… - Med, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Background Scaling SARS-CoV-2 testing to meet demands of safe reopenings
continues to be plagued by assay costs and supply chain shortages. In response, we …

Viral dynamics of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and applications to diagnostic and public health strategies

SM Kissler, JR Fauver, C Mack, SW Olesen, C Tai… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
SARS-CoV-2 infections are characterized by viral proliferation and clearance phases and
can be followed by low-level persistent viral RNA shedding. The dynamics of viral RNA …