Combined oropharyngeal/nasal swab is equivalent to nasopharyngeal sampling for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic PCR

To address this pandemic broad testing with an easy, comfortable and reliable testing method is of utmost concern. Nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sampling i...

Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in nasopharynx according to clinical phenotype of affected patients

duration of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the upper respiratory tract is extremely variable. We investigated this re...

Evaluation of Nutrition Risk and Its Association With Mortality Risk in Severely and Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Most patients, especially critically ill patients, had significant changes in nutrition-related parameters and inflammatory markers. Critically ill pa...

Clinical impact of molecular point-of-care testing for suspected COVID-19 in hospital (COV-19POC): a prospective, interventional, non-randomised, controlled study

In hospitals, these delays lead to poor patient flow and nosocomial transmission. Rapid, accurate tests are urgently needed in preparation for the nex...

Effect of SARS-CoV-2 antibody screening on participants' attitudes and behaviour: a study of industry workers in Split, Croatia

The study looked at attitudes and behavior before and after negative serological test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SAR...

Poor maternal-neonatal outcomes in pregnant patients with confirmed SARS-Cov-2 infection: analysis of 145 cases

Millions of people have been affected globally by SARS-CoV-2. The percentage of patients who delivered vaginally was higher than those who experienced...

Rapid and visual detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay

Methods: We designed primers specific to the orf1ab and S genes of SARS-CoV-2. Total viral RNA was extracted using the QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit. Assa...

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in plasma samples of COVID-19 affected individuals: a cross-sectional proof-of-concept study

Plasma SARS-CoV-2 RNA seems to be associated with a worse COVID-19 outcome. Viremic patients were more frequently affected by hematological malignanci...