Current and innovative methods for the diagnosis of COVID‑19 infection (Review)

• Published in: International journal of molecular medicine Vol. 47; no. 6; p. 1
• Main Authors: Falzone, Luca, Gattuso, Giuseppe, Tsatsakis, Aristidis, Spandidos, Demetrios A, Libra, Massimo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Greece Spandidos Publications 01.06.2021; Spandidos Publications UK Ltd; D.A. Spandidos
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies; Antigens; Biosensing Techniques - methods; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 Testing - methods; Diagnosis; Diagnostic tests; Disease transmission; FDA approval; Health aspects; Humans; Infections; Inventions; Laboratories; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Microscopy, Electron - methods; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques - methods; Pandemics; Patient assessment; SARS-CoV-2 - genetics; SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification; Serology; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Viral antibodies; Virus Cultivation - methods; Israel; Europe

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic has forced the scientific community to rapidly develop highly reliable diagnostic methods in order to effectively and accurately diagnose this pathology, thus limiting the spread of infection. Although the structural and molecular characteristics of t...