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ReviewRisk management and healthcare policy2021

Guidelines and Safety Considerations in the Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Prerequisite Study for Health Professionals.

Purva Asrani, Afzal Hussain, Khalida Nasreen, Mohamed Fahad AlAjmi, Samira Amir, Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, Md Imtaiyaz Hassan

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Review in Risk management and healthcare policy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Therapeutic dilemmas in addressing SARS-CoV-2 infection: Favipiravir versus Remdesivir.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022
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  5. Natural products can be used in therapeutic management of COVID-19: Probable mechanistic insights.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022
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  8. Clinical features and mechanistic insights into drug repurposing for combating COVID-19.The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Purva AsraniMolecular Biology and Biotechnology, ICAR- National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, 110012, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4747-4567
Afzal HussainDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9769-2557
Khalida NasreenCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India.
Mohamed Fahad AlAjmiDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3044-1267
Samira AmirDepartment of Chemistry, College of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Sukhwinder Singh SohalRespiratory Translational Research Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Health Sciences, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Md Imtaiyaz HassanCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3663-4940

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging challenging area for the researchers to buckle up against the spread and control of the virus. Since earlier times, the diagnosis has been an important procedure in estimating the fate of epidemics by indicating the extent to which disease has been spread and to the extent, further disease prognosis would occur. The absence of anti-viral therapies and vaccines for COVID-19 at present suggests early diagnosis and isolation of the patients as the only smart approach available as of now. Presently, the increasing death rates, faster rates of transmission, non-availability of vaccines, and treatment have over-pressurized the researchers, health professionals, and government officials to develop effective clinical strategies in diagnosis and to come up with guidelines to be followed during conduction of each diagnostic procedure for maintaining healthcare systems. Since the incubation period of this virus is 2-14 days, a patient can transmit the infection without showing symptoms. Therefore, early diagnosis and isolation of susceptible individuals are the only way to limit the spread of the virus. Significance of diagnosis and triaging, information on specimen collection, safety considerations while handling, transport, and storage of samples have been highlighted in this paper to make people more aware and develop better clinical strategies in the future.

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COVID-19diagnosis guidelinessafety considerationSARS-COV-2specimen collection

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PMID33568956
PMCPMC7868778

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