ReviewTalanta2022
Review of COVID-19 testing and diagnostic methods.
Review in Talanta, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 230 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies in reducing COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of testing, contact tracing and isolation interventions among the general population on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Weight loss treatment for COVID-19 in patients with NCDs: a pilot prospective clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Ultrafast Plasmonic Nanocavity Thermocycler for Direct Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR at a Point-of-Care Level.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026Article
- Extraoral Detection of Biomarkers and Pathogens in Saliva: Comprehensive, Panoramic Review.Biosensors · 2026Review
- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care testing methods for SARS-CoV-2 detection in community quarantine and isolation settings.Infection prevention in practice · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of a Streamlined Multiplex RT-PCR Assay for Accurate SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Diverse Healthcare Environments.Current microbiology · 2026Article
- Corrected and republished from: "Clinical validation of an RSV neutralization assay and analysis of cross-sectional sera associated with 2021-2023 RSV outbreaks to investigate the immunity debt hypothesis".Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance evaluation of Elecsys anti-SARS-CoV-2 assay against RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 detection and surveillance in Ethiopian referral hospitals: cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Ultra-Sensitive 3D Lateral Flow Assay Device for SARS-CoV-2 Detection Based on One-Step Dual-Signal Amplification.Analytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Review: Detection of Cancer Biomarkers from a Clinical Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Opportunities and Challenges in Gas Sensor Technologies for Accurate Detection of COVID-19.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Nano-engineered biomimetic materials: toward point-of-care diagnosis of infectious diseases.Mikrochimica acta · 2025Review
- Environmentally Safe Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles for Antigen Detection in CLIA System.ACS omega · 2025Article
- One-Step Label-Free Electrochemical Lateral Flow Immunosensor for SARS-CoV‑2 Antigen Detection.ACS measurement science au · 2025Article
- Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) as a rapid and portable diagnostic tool for the detection of pea root rot pathogens.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Lab-on-PCB with integrated DNA amplification and electroanalytical detection for point-of-care diagnostics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A review on the mechanism and potential diagnostic application of CRISPR/Cas13a system.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2025Review
- A Flexible Multi-Channel Deep Network Leveraging Texture and Spatial Features for Diagnosing New COVID-19 Variants in Lung CT Scans.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2025Article
43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
More than six billion tests for COVID-19 has been already performed in the world. The testing for SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2) virus and corresponding human antibodies is essential not only for diagnostics and treatment of the infection by medical institutions, but also as a pre-requisite for major semi-normal economic and social activities such as international flights, off line work and study in offices, access to malls, sport and social events. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, time to results and cost per test are essential parameters of those tests and even minimal improvement in any of them may have noticeable impact on life in the many countries of the world. We described, analyzed and compared methods of COVID-19 detection, while representing their parameters in 22 tables. Also, we compared test performance of some FDA approved test kits with clinical performance of some non-FDA approved methods just described in scientific literature. RT-PCR still remains a golden standard in detection of the virus, but a pressing need for alternative less expensive, more rapid, point of care methods is evident. Those methods that may eventually get developed to satisfy this need are explained, discussed, quantitatively compared. The review has a bioanalytical chemistry prospective, but it may be interesting for a broader circle of readers who are interested in understanding and improvement of COVID-19 testing, helping eventually to leave COVID-19 pandemic in the past.
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