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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Point-of-Care Diagnostics of COVID-19: From Current Work to Future Perspectives.

Heba A Hussein, Rabeay Y A Hassan, Marco Chino, Ferdinando Febbraio

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heba A HusseinVirology Department, Animal Health Research Institute (AHRI), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Dokki, Giza 12619, Egypt.
Rabeay Y A HassanNanoscience Program, University of Science and Technology (UST), Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6th October City, Giza 12578, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1867-9643
Marco ChinoDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II". Via Cintia 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0436-3293
Ferdinando FebbraioInstitute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Research Council (CNR), Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3653-9847

Funding

Egyptian Academy of Science, Research and Technology (ASRT, Cairo, Egypt) Project ID: ASRT 7314 - COVID Emergency call
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronaviruses have received global concern since 2003, when an outbreak caused by SARS-CoV emerged in China. Later on, in 2012, the Middle-East respiratory syndrome spread in Saudi Arabia, caused by MERS-CoV. Currently, the global crisis is caused by the pandemic SARS-CoV-2, which belongs to the same lineage of SARS-CoV. In response to the urgent need of diagnostic tools, several lab-based and biosensing techniques have been proposed so far. Five main areas have been individuated and discussed in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. The cell-culture detection and the microneutralization tests are still considered highly reliable methods. The genetic screening, featuring the well-established Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), represents the gold standard for virus detection in nasopharyngeal swabs. On the other side, immunoassays were developed, either by screening/antigen recognition of IgM/IgG or by detecting the whole virus, in blood and sera. Next, proteomic mass-spectrometry (MS)-based methodologies have also been proposed for the analysis of swab samples. Finally, virus-biosensing devices were efficiently designed. Both electrochemical immunosensors and eye-based technologies have been described, showing detection times lower than 10 min after swab introduction. Alternative to swab-based techniques, lateral flow point-of-care immunoassays are already commercially available for the analysis of blood samples. Such biosensing devices hold the advantage of being portable for on-site testing in hospitals, airports, and hotspots, virtually without any sample treatment or complicated lab precautions.

Indexed as

Point-of-Care SystemsAntibodies, ViralBetacoronavirusBiosensing TechniquesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansImmunoassayPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProteomicsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Antibodies, ViralRNA, ViralbiosensorsCOVID-19immunoassayspoint-of-care devicesSARS-CoV-2spike protein

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PMID32752043
PMCPMC7435936

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