COVID-19: An Overview on Possible Transmission Ways, Sampling Matrices and Diagnosis

Overview

Journal Bioimpacts

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 Nov 4

PMID 39493896

Authors

Elina Armani Khatibi

Nastaran Farshbaf Moghimi

Elaheh Rahimpour

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Abstract

COVID-19 is an RNA virus belonging to the SARS family of viruses and includes a wide range of symptoms along with effects on other body organs in addition to the respiratory system. The high speed of transmission, severe complications, and high death rate caused scientists to focus on this disease. Today, many different investigation types are performed on COVID-19 from various points of view in the literature. This review summarizes most of them to provide a useful guideline for researchers in this field. After a general introduction, this review is divided into three parts. In the first one, various transmission ways COVID-19 are classified and explained in detail. The second part reviews the used biological samples for the detection of virus and the final section describes the various methods reported for the diagnosis of COVID-19 in various biological matrices.

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