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Diagnostic Efficiency of Three Fully Automated Serology Assays and Their Correlation with a Novel Surrogate Virus Neutralization Test in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 Individuals

Younes, Salma; Al-Jighefee, Hadeel; Shurrab, Farah; Al-Sadeq, Duaa W.; Younes, Nadin; ... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI , 2020 , Article)

Abstract: To support the deployment of serology assays for population screening during the COVID-19 pandemic, we compared the performance of three fully automated SARS-CoV-2 IgG assays: Mindray CL-900i® (target: spike [S] ...

D-Dimer Concentrations and COVID-19 Severity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Paliogiannis, Panagiotis; Mangoni, Arduino; Dettori, Paola; Nasrallah, Gheyath; Pintus, Gianfranco; ... more authors ... less authors ( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article Review)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently described infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since late 2019, COVID-19 has rapidly spread in virtually all countries, ...

Vaccine Development Against COVID-19 Prior to Pandemic Outbreaks, Using Evolution and Reverse Genetics.

Zayed, Hatem ( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article)

Developing vaccines against COVID-19 during or after future pandemic outbreaks will be too slow to ‎save lives. The opinion presented here is that we can anticipate the virus genomic structures that will ‎emerge and cause ...

Performance evaluation of five ELISA kits for detecting anti-SARS-COV-2 IgG antibodies

Hadi M., Yassine; Al-Jighefee, Hadeel; Al-Sadeq, Duaa W.; Dargham, Soha R.; Younes, Salma N.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

ObjectivesTo evaluate and compare the performances of five commercial ELISA assays (EDI, AnshLabs, Dia.Pro, NovaTec, and Lionex) for detecting anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG. Methods70 negative control samples (collected before the ...

The incidence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic patients: a systematic review

Nasrallah, Gheyath K. ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

Backgroundthe recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has quickly spread globally since its discovery in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. A comprehensive strategy, including surveillance, diagnostics, ...

Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Younes, Nadin; Al-Sadeq, Duaa W; Al-Jighefee, Hadeel; Younes, Salma; Al-Jamal, Ola; ... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI , 2020 , Article)

The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly spread worldwide since its discovery in Wuhan city, China in December 2019. A comprehensive strategy, including surveillance, diagnostics, research, ...

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Early Travel-Associated COVID-19 Cases

Marei, Reham M.; Emara, Mohamed M.; Elsaied, Omar M.; Nasrallah, Gheyath K.; Chivese, Tawanda; ... more authors ... less authors ( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article)

© Copyright © 2020 Marei, Emara, Elsaied, Nasrallah, Chivese, Al-Romaihi, Althani, Al Thani, Farag and Yassine. Background: SARS-CoV-2 continues to claim hundreds of thousands of people's lives. It mostly affects the elderly ...

The transcriptomic profiling of SARS-CoV-2 compared to SARS, MERS, EBOV, and H1N1

Alsamman, Alsamman M; Zayed, Hatem ( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global crisis that threatens our way of life. As of November 18, 2020, SARS-CoV-2 has claimed more than 1,342,709 lives, with a global mortality rate of ~2.4% and a recovery rate of ...