Objectives The aim was to determine whether various clinical specimens obtained from
COVID-19 patients contain the infectious virus. Methods To demonstrate whether various …

Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a major global public …

Considering the issues of shortage of medical resources and the invasiveness and infection
risk involved in the collection of nasopharyngeal swab specimens, there is a need for an …

Abstract In December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), emerged in Wuhan, China, and has …

Objectives The aim was to understand persistence of the virus in body fluids the and
immune response of an infected host to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 …

ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2 caused a major outbreak of severe pneumonia (COVID-19) in
humans. Viral RNA was detected in multiple organs in COVID-19 patients. However …

The need for timely establishment of a complete diagnostic protocol of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is demanded worldwide. We selected 15 …

As a result of the clinical similarity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with other flulike
syndromes, patients were tested for other pathogens of respiratory tract infections as well …

Background The detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) RNA by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) does not necessarily …

In this journal, Azzi et al. reported that saliva was a reliable tool to detect SARS-CoV-2. 1 We
prospectively compared the efficacy of PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 between paired …