Diagnosing COVID-19: The Disease and Tools for Detection
Author(s) -
Buddhisha Udugama,
Pranav Kadhiresan,
H Kozłowski,
Ayden Malekjahani,
Matthew Osborne,
Vanessa Y. C. Li,
Hongmin Chen,
Samira Mubareka,
Jonathan B. Gubbay,
Warren C. W. Chan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acs nano
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.554
H-Index - 382
eISSN - 1936-086X
pISSN - 1936-0851
DOI - 10.1021/acsnano.0c02624
Subject(s) - covid-19 , outbreak , point of care , point of care testing , data science , virology , pandemic , disease , computer science , computational biology , medicine , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
COVID-19 has spread globally since its discovery in Hubei province, China in December 2019. A combination of computed tomography imaging, whole genome sequencing, and electron microscopy were initially used to screen and identify SARS-CoV-2, the viral etiology of COVID-19. The aim of this review article is to inform the audience of diagnostic and surveillance technologies for SARS-CoV-2 and their performance characteristics. We describe point-of-care diagnostics that are on the horizon and encourage academics to advance their technologies beyond conception. Developing plug-and-play diagnostics to manage the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak would be useful in preventing future epidemics.
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