Diagnosis of COVID-19: considerations, controversies and challenges in South Africa

K Dheda, S Jaumdally, M Davids, JW Chang… - Wits Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - journals.co.za
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 is a global pandemic that has resulted in over 1.5 million confirmed cases and …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the sensitivity of antibody tests for the laboratory confirmation of COVID-19

NA Makoah, T Tipih, MM Litabe, M Brink… - Future …, 2022 - Future Medicine
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of serological tests for the diagnosis of
COVID-19 during the first week of symptom onset in patients confirmed with the real-time RT …

Staging of COVID-19 disease; using selected laboratory profiles for prediction, prevention and management of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa–review

H Sendagire, S Kiwuwa, A Dhamani… - African Health …, 2023 - ajol.info
There are many uncertainties on the future management of the coronavirus disease 19
(COVID-19) in Africa. By July 2021, Africa had lagged behind the rest of the world in Covid …

Benefits and limitations of serological assays in COVID-19 infection

Z Sidiq, M Hanif, KK Dwivedi, KK Chopra - indian journal of tuberculosis, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate and rapid diagnostic tests are critical for achieving control of coronavirus disease
2019 (covid-19), a pandemic illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Current status of laboratory diagnosis for COVID-19: a narrative review

A Russo, C Minichini, M Starace, R Astorri… - Infection and Drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the
related disease (COVID-19) has spread rapidly to pandemic proportions, increasing the …

COVID-19 antibody testing: From hype to immunological reality

CM Gray, J Peter, M Mendelson, S Madhi… - South African Medical …, 2020 - samj.org.za
The potential role for serological tests in the current COVID-19 pandemic has generated
very considerable recent interest across many sectors worldwide, inter alia pathologists …

Towards effective diagnostic assays for COVID-19: a review

M Venter, K Richter - Journal of clinical pathology, 2020 - jcp.bmj.com
Countries globally are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly two million cases
and 120 000 deaths occurring within 4 months of the discovery of the severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the prominence of current diagnostic methods for diagnosis of COVID-19

MS Nezhad, F Seif, IA Darazam, A Samei… - AIMS Allergy and …, 2020 - aimspress.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused a fatal pandemic worldwide. This review
aims to discuss laboratory, molecular, and serological methods and their advantages and …

[PDF][PDF] Global status of COVID-19 diagnosis: an overview.

K Ravichandran, S Anbazhagan… - Journal of Pure & …, 2020 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Since the beginning of the New Year 2020, countries around the world are stumbling due to
the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Better approaches of diagnostics and …

Sensitivity and specificity of 14 SARS-CoV-2 serological assays and their diagnostic potential in RT-PCR negative COVID-19 infections

E Van Honacker, L Coorevits, J Boelens… - Acta Clinica …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory samples is the gold standard
for COVID-19 diagnosis but it has a long turnaround time and struggles to detect low viral …