Is It Possible to Test for Viral Infectiousness?: The Use Case of (SARS-CoV-2).
Clin Lab Med
; 44(1): 85-93, 2024 03.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38280800
ABSTRACT
Identifying and managing individuals with active or chronic disease, implementing appropriate infection control measures, and mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for tests of infectiousness. The gold standard for assessing infectiousness has been the recovery of infectious virus in cell culture. Using cycle threshold values, antigen testing, and SARS-CoV-2, replication intermediate strands were used to assess infectiousness, with many limitations. Infectiousness can be influenced by host factors (eg, preexisting immune responses) and virus factors (eg, evolution).
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Virus Diseases
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Lab Med
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article