Antibody tests for identification of current and past infection with SARS‐CoV‐2

T Fox, J Geppert, J Dinnes, K Scandrett… - Cochrane database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The diagnostic challenges associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in
rapid development of diagnostic test methods for detecting SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. Serology …

Returning to work after the COVID-19 pandemic earthquake: a systematic review

EM Garzillo, A Cioffi, A Carta, MGL Monaco - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disrupted life and work habits and
has produced landmark changes worldwide. This systematic review aimed to analyse the …

Double-Negative Results Matter: A Reevaluation of Sensitivities for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 Infection Using Saliva Versus Nasopharyngeal Swabs

Z Wang, YL Liu, Y Chen, L Siegel… - American journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In a recent systematic review, Bastos et al.(Ann Intern Med. 2021; 174 (4): 501–510)
compared the sensitivities of saliva sampling and nasopharyngeal swabs in the detection of …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 wave was already here: High seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among staff and students in a Cameroon University

ALD Wondeu, BM Talom, G Linardos… - Journal of Public …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Seroprevalence studies, to estimate the proportion of people that has been
infected by SARS-CoV-2 are importance in African countries, where incidence is among the …

Impact of vaccination with the SCB-2019 coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine on transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection: a …

BT Tadesse, L Bravo, F Marks, AB Aziz… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background An exploratory household transmission study was nested in SPECTRA, the
phase 2/3 efficacy study of the adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine …

Detection of SARS-coV-2 neutralizing antibodies in vaccinated pregnant women and neonates by using a lateral flow immunoassay coupled with a spectrum-based …

WC Chen, YP Lin, CM Cheng, CF Shen, CW Li… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The focus of this study was to investigate the detection of neutralizing antibodies (Nabs) in
maternal serum and cord blood as the targeted samples by employing a lateral flow …

Serology assays used in SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysis of assay features, testing algorithms, and …

X Ma, Z Li, MG Whelan, D Kim, C Cao, M Yanes-Lane… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Many serological assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were developed
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Differences in the detection mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 …

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the diagnostic accuracy tests of COVID-19

JJ Vilca-Alosilla, MA Candia-Puma, K Coronel-Monje… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a systematic review and meta-analysis that aims to evaluate the
reliability of coronavirus disease diagnostic tests in 2019 (COVID-19). This article seeks to …

Impact of vaccination with SCB-2019 COVID-19 vaccine on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a household contact study in the Philippines

BT Tadesse, L Bravo, F Marks, AB Aziz, YA You… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Background An exploratory household transmission study was nested in SPECTRA, the
phase 2/3 efficacy study of the adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine …

Bayesian hierarchical models incorporating study‐level covariates for multivariate meta‐analysis of diagnostic tests without a gold standard with application to COVID …

Z Wang, TA Murray, M Xiao, L Lin… - Statistics in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
When evaluating a diagnostic test, it is common that a gold standard may not be available.
One example is the diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection using saliva sampling or …