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ReviewBiomolecules2021

Nucleic Acids Analytical Methods for Viral Infection Diagnosis: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives.

Emanuele Luigi Sciuto, Antonio Alessio Leonardi, Giovanna Calabrese, Giovanna De Luca, Maria Anna Coniglio, Alessia Irrera, Sabrina Conoci

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Review in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Emanuele Luigi SciutoAzienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Policlinico "G. Rodolico-San Marco", Via Santa Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4972-9874
Antonio Alessio LeonardiCNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres 37, 98158 Messina, Italy.
Giovanna CalabreseDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 5, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1937-5403
Giovanna De LucaDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 5, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5115-7572
Maria Anna ConiglioDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies "G.F. Ingrassia", University of Catania, Via Sofia 87, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6119-0309
Alessia IrreraCNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres 37, 98158 Messina, Italy.
Sabrina ConociCNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres 37, 98158 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5874-7284
University of Messina · ITPoliclinico Universitario di Catania · ITUniversity of Catania · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The analysis of viral nucleic acids (NA), DNA or RNA, is a crucial issue in the diagnosis of infections and the treatment and prevention of related human diseases. Conventional nucleic acid tests (NATs) require multistep approaches starting from the purification of the pathogen genetic material in biological samples to the end of its detection, basically performed by the consolidated polymerase chain reaction (PCR), by the use of specialized instruments and dedicated laboratories. However, since the current NATs are too constraining and time and cost consuming, the research is evolving towards more integrated, decentralized, user-friendly, and low-cost methods. These will allow the implementation of massive diagnoses addressing the growing demand of fast and accurate viral analysis facing such global alerts as the pandemic of coronavirus disease of the recent period. Silicon-based technology and microfluidics, in this sense, brought an important step up, leading to the introduction of the genetic point-of-care (PoC) systems. This review goes through the evolution of the analytical methods for the viral NA diagnosis of infection diseases, highlighting both advantages and drawbacks of the innovative emerging technologies versus the conventional approaches.

Indexed as

COVID-19 TestingLab-On-A-Chip DevicesPoint-of-Care SystemsAnimalsBiosensing TechniquesCOVID-19DNA, ViralGenome, ViralHumansOxidation-ReductionPandemicsPolymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Virus DiseasesDNA, ViralRNA, Viralinfections diagnosismicrofluidicspoint-of-caresilicon-based technologiesviral NA analysis

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PMID34827583
PMCPMC8615992
OpenAlexW3210545287

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