Molecular diagnostic technologies for COVID-19 : Limitations and challenges

© 2020 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University..

BACKGROUND: To curb the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, the world needs diagnostic systems capable of rapid detection and quantification of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Many biomedical companies are rising to the challenge and developing COVID-19 diagnostics. In the last few months, some of these diagnostics have become commercially available for healthcare workers and clinical laboratories. However, the diagnostic technologies have specific limitations and reported several false-positive and false-negative cases, especially during the early stages of infection.

AIM: This article aims to review recent developments in the field of COVID-19 diagnostics based on molecular technologies and analyze their clinical performance data.

KEY CONCEPTS: The literature survey and performance-based analysis of the commercial and pre-commercial molecular diagnostics address several questions and issues related to the limitations of current technologies and highlight future research and development challenges to enable timely, rapid, low-cost, and accurate diagnosis of emerging infectious diseases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Journal of advanced research - 26(2020) vom: 07. Nov., Seite 149-159

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Afzal, Adeel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Clinical sensitivity
In vitro diagnostics
Journal Article
Point-of-care
Real-time RT-PCR
Review
SARS-CoV-2

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jare.2020.08.002

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314111816