Abstract Purpose of Review Due to the rapidly changing landscape of COVID-19, the
purpose of this review is to provide a concise and updated summary of pediatric COVID-19 …

Background Diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients and screening of populations
for SARS-CoV-2 infection require access to straightforward, low-cost and high-throughput …

Saliva is an attractive sample for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However, contradictory reports
exist concerning the sensitivity of saliva versus nasal swabs. We followed close contacts of …

ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)—caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—has spread rapidly around the world. The global …

Background The main objective was to evaluate the efficacy of intranasal photodynamic
therapy (PDT) in SARS-CoV-2 mildly symptomatic carriers on decreasing the infectivity …

Objectives This scoping review aims to summarize the diagnostic value of saliva assessed
from current studies that (1) compare its performance in reverse transcriptase‐polymerase …

From the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, clinical laboratories around the world have
been involved with tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2. At present, RT-PCR (real-time reverse …

Nasopharyngeal swabbing (NPS) coupled with RT-PCR is the current gold standard for
detecting SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, numerous studies have recently demonstrated …

Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of salivary swabs (SS) to detect the SARS-
CoV-2 virus has been implemented and widely studied in adults and children. However, the …

Background: In resource-poor countries, antigen-based rapid tests (Ag-RDTs) performed at
primary healthcare and community settings improved access to SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics …