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January 29, 2024

Diagnostics and Breakthrough Infections

Publications

Virus variant specific clinical performance of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests in point-of-care use, November 2020 to January 2022.

Journal Article
Clin Microbiol Infect
Written by Isabell Wagenhäuser, Kerstin Knies, Daniela Hofmann, Vera Rauschenberger, Michael Eisenmann, Julia Reusch, Alexander Gabel, Sven Flemming, Oliver Andres, Nils Petri, Max S Topp, Michael Papsdorf, Miriam McDonogh, Raoul Verma-Führing, Agmal Scherzad, Daniel Zeller, Hartmut Böhm, Anja Gesierich, Anna Katharina Seitz, Michael Kiderlen, Micha Gawlik, Regina Taurines, Thomas Wurmb, Ralf-Ingo Ernestus, Johannes Forster, Dirk Weismann, Benedikt Weißbrich, Lars Dölken, Johannes Liese, Lars Kaderali, Oliver Kurzai, Ulrich Vogel, Manuel Krone
August 23, 2022

OBJECTIVES: Antigen rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for SARS-CoV-2 are quick, widely available, and inexpensive. Consequently, RDT have been established as an alternative and additional diagnostic strategy to quantitative reverse transcription…

Comment to the article by Pedro Brotons: Validation and implementation of a direct RT-qPCR method for rapid screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection by using non-invasive saliva samples, IJID 110 (2021) 363-370.

Letter
Int J Infect Dis
Written by Tianfei Yu, Fangfang Liu, Haichang Yin, Nana Yi, Ming Li
August 17, 2022

A rapid, easy, and scalable whole blood monocyte CD169 assay for outpatient screening during SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, and potentially other emerging disease outbreaks.

Journal Article
SAGE Open Med
Written by Moïse Michel, Fabrice Malergue, Inès Ait Belkacem, Pénélope Bourgoin, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, Isabelle Arnoux, Tewfik Miloud, Matthieu Million, Hervé Tissot-Dupont, Jean-Louis Mege, Joana Vitte, Jean-Marc Busnel
August 3, 2022

Objective: The COVID-19 corona virus disease outbreak is globally challenging health systems and societies. Its diagnosis relies on molecular methods, with drawbacks revealed by mass screening. Upregulation of neutrophil CD64…

Diagnostic accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 Panbio™ rapid antigen diagnostic tests in a 4,440-case clinical follow-up.

Journal Article
Front Med (Lausanne)
Written by Ágoston Hamar, Kristóf Filipánits, Alex Váradi, Rita Váradi-Rácz, Henrietta Orsolya Gellén, Krisztina Futács, Péter Urbán, Gabor L Kovacs, Katalin Gombos
August 2, 2022

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Rapid Antigen Detection Testing (RADT) has been subjected to several evaluations in reference to diagnostic accuracy, ranging from small scale up to large population…

Potential Predictive Value of miR-125b-5p, miR-155-5p and Their Target Genes in the Course of COVID-19.

Journal Article
Infect Drug Resist
Written by Xuewen Li, Yiting Wang, Qi Zhou, Junqi Pan, Jiancheng Xu
July 29, 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to provide new biomarkers for predicting the disease course of COVID-19 by analyzing the dynamic changes of microRNA (miRNA) and its target gene expression in the…

Low-dose chest CT for preoperative screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Journal Article
Radiologia (Engl Ed)
Written by M Barrio Piqueras, A Ezponda Casajús, C Urtasun Iriarte, J Larrache Latasa, J Pueyo Villoslada, G Bastarrika
July 21, 2022

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to evaluate the role of chest computed tomography (CT) in complementing reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in asymptomatic candidates for elective surgery in the context…

Retrospective review of re-positive qPCR tests for SARS-CoV: do they indicate presence of reinfection?

Journal Article
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci
Written by H Temiz, E Özbek, F Yıldız Zeyrek

OBJECTIVE: In 2019, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic broke out, caused by the coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Reinfections can be observed with various respiratory…

[Investigation of SARS-CoV-2-Specific Humoral and Cellular Immunity Values in Health Care Workers with COVID-19 Disease and Administered with COVID-19 Vaccine].

Journal Article
Mikrobiyol Bul
Written by Ali Ümit Keskin, Altay Burak Dalan, Pınar Çıragil, Aynur Eren Topkaya

For limiting the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the effects on both humoral and cellular immune responses due to vaccines and previous infection should be taken into consideration. In some of…