An Approach to Screen COVID-19 Patients Using Diagnostic Kits: With Special Reference to Pakistan

Faiza Durrani; Farhat Zaheer

doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0206.v2

Preprint Communication Version 2 Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed

Version 1 : Received: 11 April 2020 / Approved: 13 April 2020 / Online: 13 April 2020 (03:40:08 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 30 April 2020 / Approved: 30 April 2020 / Online: 30 April 2020 (05:10:43 CEST)

The World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 as a pandemic on 11th March 2020. The main approach to tackle Covid-19 worldwide is to screen and provide supportive care to patients. For screening purpose RT-qPCR based test are used as an initial detections assay. The test is expensive, time consuming and not suitable for mass scale screening/ confirmation requirement. A recent advancement is development of Immunoassay procedures (liquid Phase tests or bed side 10-20minute strip test). In order to help and accelerate bringing life to normal after lock down, Pakistan is in dire need to develop and adopt the immunoassay procedures for mass scale screening and confirmation of COVID-19 infection. It is cheap and easy to perform without a lab requirement.

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COVID-19; RT-qPCR; liquid phase immunoassay

Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology

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Received: 30 April 2020
Commenter: Faiza Durrani
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author

Comment: Change in the title of the short communication. The title now is " An Approach to Screen COVID-19 Patients Using Diagnostic Kits: With Special Reference to Pakistan

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An Approach to Screen COVID-19 Patients Using Diagnostic Kits: With Special Reference to Pakistan

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