Browsing Technical documents and research evidence on COVID-19 by Subject "Serologic Tests"
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Containing Covid-19 outbreaks with spatiallytargeted short-term lockdowns and mass-testing
(2020-05-09)We assess the efficacy of spatially targeted lockdown or mass-testing and case-isolation in individual communities, as a compliment to contact-tracing and social-distancing, for containing SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. Using the ... -
Meta-analysis of diagnostic performance of serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and public health implications
(2020-05-08)Serology-based tests have become a key public health element in the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the degree of herd immunity that has been achieved in the population. These tests differ between one another in several ways. ... -
Sensitivity and specificity of a rapid test for assessment of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a community-based setting in Brazil
(2020-05-10)Background: While the recommended laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 is a molecular based assay, population-based studies to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 usually use serological assays. Objective: To evaluate the ... -
Serological assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), March 2020
(2020-04-14)Background: The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has major impacts on health systems, the economy and society. Assessing infection attack rates in the population is critical for estimating disease severity ... -
Serological immunochromatographic approach in diagnosis with SARS-CoV-2 infected COVID-19 patients
(2020-03-26)An outbreak of new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was occurred in Wuhan, China and rapidly spread to other cities and nations. The standard diagnostic approach that widely adopted in the clinic is nucleic acid detection by real-time ... -
Specificity of dengue NS1 antigen in differential diagnosis of dengue and zika virus infection
(2016)Circulation of new arboviruses of the genus Flavivirus poses a major problem for differential diagnosis. Zika virus, a mosquitoborne virus of the family Flaviviridae, is closely related to other arboviruses circulating in ... -
Who can go back to work when the COVID-19 pandemic remits?
(2020-05-10)This paper seeks to determine which workers affected by lockdown measures can return to work when a government decides to apply lockdown exit strategies. This system, which we call Sequential Selective Multidimensional ...