False-negative results of initial RT-PCR assays for COVID-19: a systematic review

I Arevalo-Rodriguez, D Buitrago-Garcia… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background A false-negative case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) infection is defined as a person with suspected infection and an initial …

Estimate false‐negative RT‐PCR rates for SARS‐CoV‐2. A systematic review and meta‐analysis

V Pecoraro, A Negro, T Pirotti… - European journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Molecular‐based tests used to identify symptomatic or asymptomatic patients
infected by SARS‐CoV‐2 are characterized by high specificity but scarce sensitivity …

Lessons learnt from the first wave of COVID-19 in Damascus, Syria: a multicentre retrospective cohort study

I Hanafi, L Alzamel, O Alnabelsi, S Sallam… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The decade-long Syrian war led to fragile health infrastructures lacking in
personal and physical resources. The public health of the Syrian population was, therefore …

[PDF][PDF] Covid-19 scientific publications from Turkey

R Ciftciler, İC Haznedaroğlu, A Tufan… - Turkish Journal of …, 2021 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
ÇİFTÇİLER, RAFİYE; HAZNEDAROĞLU, İBRAHİM CELALETTİN; TUFAN,
ABDURRAHMAN; and ÖZTÜRK, MEHMET AKİF (2021)" Covid-19 scientific publications …

Structural basis of fitness of emerging SARS-COV-2 variants and considerations for screening, testing and surveillance strategy to contain their threat

SR Islam, D Prusty, SK Manna - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
While emergence of new SAS-COV-2 variants is posing grave challenge to efforts to deal
with the COVID-19 pandemic, the structural and molecular basis of their fitness remain …

[HTML][HTML] Usefulness of laboratory parameters and chest CT in the early diagnosis of COVID-19

A Colak, D Oncel, Z Altın, M Turken… - Revista do Instituto de …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
In the present study, the importance of laboratory parameters and CT findings in the early
diagnosis of COVID-19 was investigated. To this end, 245 patients admitted between April …

[PDF][PDF] Lung imaging features in covid-19 cases: a systematic review and metaanalusis

E Zarei, Z Haddadian, A Rostami… - … journal of special …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Background and aim: the purpose of present study was evaluate Lung imaging features in
COVID-19 cases. Method: Current study following the PRISMA guidelines, all articles …

Evaluation of coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) in terms of epidemiological and clinical features, comorbidities, diagnostic methods, treatment, and mortality

N Çekmen, Z Ersoy, Y ilteriş Günay… - Journal of Education …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes
COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared it a pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 indicates …

Spectrum of chest CT manifestations of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a pictorial essay

AH Parry, HA Wani, NA Choh, NN Shah… - Indian Journal of …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is an enveloped single-stranded …

Evaluation of lung volume loss with 3D CT volumetry in COVID-19 patients

R Savaş, AÖ Özcan - Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The standard test for the assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the reverse-
transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Chest computed tomography (CT) …