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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Diagnosis

WHO Laboratory testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in suspected human cases

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens. JAMA Published online March 11, 2020

Initial Public Health Response and Interim Clinical Guidance for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak — United States, December 31, 2019–February 4, 2020 Weekly / February 7, 2020 / 69(5);140–146 online as an MMWR Early Release.

Profiling Early Humoral Response to Diagnose Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa310, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa310 Published: 21 March 2020

The clinical characteristics of pneumonia patients coinfected with 2019 novel coronavirus and influenza virus in Wuhan, China. J Med Virol. 20 March 2020

Development and Clinical Application of A Rapid IgM-IgG Combined Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Diagnosis. J Med Virol 2020 Feb 27 [Online ahead of print]

Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 in Patients of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019. Clin Infect Dis 2020 Mar 28[Online ahead of print]

How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen. N Engl J Med. 2020 Apr 17

Variation in False-Negative Rate of Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based SARS-CoV-2 Tests by Time Since Exposure. Ann Intern Med. 2020 May 13.

Early Morning Versus Spot Posterior Oropharyngeal Saliva for Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Implication of Timing of Specimen Collection for Community-wide Screening. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 07.

Identification of nsp1 gene as the target of SARS-CoV-2 real-time RT-PCR using nanopore whole genome sequencing. J Med Virol. 2020 Jun 05

Clinically Applicable AI system for accurate diagnosis, quantitative measurements, and prognosis of COVID-19 pneumonia using computed tomography. Cell. 2020 Jun 11;181(6):1423-1433.

Prospective study comparing deep-throat saliva with other respiratory tract specimens in the diagnosis of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). J Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 1.
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