Rapid diagnostic tests are required for the early diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. Rapid antigen detection tests are card-based, and the reports are available within 30 min. Sample type is nasopharyngeal swab. Rapid antigen tests help in triaging the patients, early identification, isolation, and...
probable and confirmed case definition of COVID-19 by the WHO has been presented in Fig.9.1. The decision for diagnosis of an individual should be based on epidemiological and clinical factors which linked to an assessment
The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents us with a serious public health crisis. To combat the virus and slow its spread, wider testing is essential. There is a need for more sensitive, specific, and convenient detection methods of the severe acute respiratory syn...
of infection, severe ones, and especially mild forms of the disease which affect a huge number of patients need to be further investigated. Laboratory medicine has a crucial role in early diagnosis of the disease, recognition of the patients who need hospital care, and close monitoring of ...
From the journal Diagnosishttps://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2020-0095Cite this Share this Abstract Objectives The pandemic COVID-19 currently reached 213 countries worldwide with nearly 9 million infected people and more than 460,000 deaths. Although several Chinese studies, descri...
diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection (i. e., the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19), will not be possible without laboratory testing, either by directly identifying the presence of the virus in biological samples with (real-time) reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), or ...
AUC, optimal cut-off, and sensitivity and specificity values of laboratory parameters are given in Table 3. Table 3. The value of blood routine parameters in diagnosis of critically ill patients with COVID-19 on admission. ParametersCut-off valueAUC (95%CI)Sensitivity (%)Specificity (%)95%CI...
Timely analysis of the laboratory characteristics associated with 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) can assist with clinical diagnosis and prognosis. This study is a collection of clinical data from 54 hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Zhongfa Xincheng district of Ch...
Combining the assessment of imaging features with clinical and laboratory findings could facilitate the early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. Sixty-seven patients were collected in the study, the average age was 46 years. There were 49 patients in Group A, with 29 males, and 18 patients in...
According to the preamble of the previous paragraph, establishment of an on-field modular clinical laboratory shall be seen as the more favorable strategy, despite the fact that this also brings about some additional issues. According to the third editio...