Evaluation of sample pooling for screening of SARS CoV-2

To overcome the challenge of nucleic acid (NA) extraction and testing kit availability, an efficient method is urgently needed. The standard reverse t...

Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 Detection With Nasopharyngeal Swabs

SARS-CoV-2-infected subjects have been proven contagious in the symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, and asymptomatic phases. The identification of these pat...

Description of a late miscarriage case at 16 Weeks of Gestation associated with a SARS-CoV-2 infection

A 40-year-old pregnant woman with no previous complications presented a late miscarriage at 16 weeks of gestation on day 9 of COVID-19 disease. The re...

Differences in Performance Characteristics Among Four High-Throughput Assays for the Detection of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 Using a Common Set of Patient Samples

Serologic testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has experienced a changing landscape of available assays, with unce...

Comparative evaluation of four SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests in hospitalized patients

Antigen tests can provide timely results, which is of particular importance in a primary care setting. Most tests had a sufficient sensitivity to iden...

An in-well direct lysis method for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 by real time RT-PCR in eSwab specimens

In the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic reagents and utensils for NA purification have been in short supply. This has generated interest in methods that eliminate...

Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies to an Automated Chemiluminescent Serological Immunoassay

NAbs are capable of binding to a virus to render it incapable of infection. The ability of commercially available SARS-CoV-2 serological tests to dete...

Interlaboratory Agreement of Anti-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Serologic Assays in the Expedited College of American Pathologists Proficiency Testing Program

SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus and the etiologic agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical testing for antibodies to the virus has rapidly...

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