Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

<p dir="ltr">The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly spread worldwide since its discovery in Wuhan city, China in December 2019. A comprehensive strategy, including surveillance, diagnostics, research, clinical treatment, and development of vaccines...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Nadin Younes (4863280) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Duaa W. Al-Sadeq (16515090) (author), Hadeel AL-Jighefee (16515093) (author), Salma Younes (6424865) (author), Ola Al-Jamal (11721377) (author), Hanin I. Daas (16515095) (author), Hadi. M. Yassine (16515098) (author), Gheyath K. Nasrallah (2182598) (author)
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Hanin I. Daas (16515095)
Hadi. M. Yassine (16515098)
Gheyath K. Nasrallah (2182598)
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Duaa W. Al-Sadeq (16515090)
Hadeel AL-Jighefee (16515093)
Salma Younes (6424865)
Ola Al-Jamal (11721377)
Hanin I. Daas (16515095)
Hadi. M. Yassine (16515098)
Gheyath K. Nasrallah (2182598)
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Microbiology
Biomedical and clinical sciences
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COVID-19
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viruses
diagnostic challenges
molecular testing
serology
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description <p dir="ltr">The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly spread worldwide since its discovery in Wuhan city, China in December 2019. A comprehensive strategy, including surveillance, diagnostics, research, clinical treatment, and development of vaccines, is urgently needed to win the battle against COVID-19. The past three unprecedented outbreaks of emerging human coronavirus infections at the beginning of the 21st century have highlighted the importance of readily available, accurate, and rapid diagnostic technologies to contain emerging and re-emerging pandemics. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) based assays performed on respiratory specimens remain the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnostics. However, point-of-care technologies and serologic immunoassays are rapidly emerging with high sensitivity and specificity as well. Even though excellent techniques are available for the diagnosis of symptomatic patients with COVID-19 in well-equipped laboratories; critical gaps still remain in screening asymptomatic people who are in the incubation phase of the virus, as well as in the accurate determination of live viral shedding during convalescence to inform decisions for ending isolation. This review article aims to discuss the currently available laboratory methods and surveillance technologies available for the detection of COVID-19, their performance characteristics and highlight the gaps in current diagnostic capacity, and finally, propose potential solutions. We also summarize the specifications of the majority of the available commercial kits (PCR, EIA, and POC) for laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Viruses<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060582" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060582</a></p>
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spelling Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2Nadin Younes (4863280)Duaa W. Al-Sadeq (16515090)Hadeel AL-Jighefee (16515093)Salma Younes (6424865)Ola Al-Jamal (11721377)Hanin I. Daas (16515095)Hadi. M. Yassine (16515098)Gheyath K. Nasrallah (2182598)Biological sciencesMicrobiologyBiomedical and clinical sciencesClinical sciencesCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2virusesdiagnostic challengesmolecular testingserology<p dir="ltr">The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly spread worldwide since its discovery in Wuhan city, China in December 2019. A comprehensive strategy, including surveillance, diagnostics, research, clinical treatment, and development of vaccines, is urgently needed to win the battle against COVID-19. The past three unprecedented outbreaks of emerging human coronavirus infections at the beginning of the 21st century have highlighted the importance of readily available, accurate, and rapid diagnostic technologies to contain emerging and re-emerging pandemics. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) based assays performed on respiratory specimens remain the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnostics. However, point-of-care technologies and serologic immunoassays are rapidly emerging with high sensitivity and specificity as well. Even though excellent techniques are available for the diagnosis of symptomatic patients with COVID-19 in well-equipped laboratories; critical gaps still remain in screening asymptomatic people who are in the incubation phase of the virus, as well as in the accurate determination of live viral shedding during convalescence to inform decisions for ending isolation. This review article aims to discuss the currently available laboratory methods and surveillance technologies available for the detection of COVID-19, their performance characteristics and highlight the gaps in current diagnostic capacity, and finally, propose potential solutions. We also summarize the specifications of the majority of the available commercial kits (PCR, EIA, and POC) for laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Viruses<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060582" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060582</a></p>2022-05-26T00:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.3390/v12060582https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Challenges_in_Laboratory_Diagnosis_of_the_Novel_Coronavirus_SARS-CoV-2/23650332CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/236503322022-05-26T00:00:00Z
spellingShingle Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Nadin Younes (4863280)
Biological sciences
Microbiology
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Clinical sciences
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
viruses
diagnostic challenges
molecular testing
serology
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title Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
title_full Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
title_fullStr Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
title_full_unstemmed Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
title_short Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
title_sort Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
topic Biological sciences
Microbiology
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Clinical sciences
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
viruses
diagnostic challenges
molecular testing
serology