Adding a throat swab specimen to a nasal specimen significantly increased sensitivity of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, whether self-collected or collected by a healthcare worker, a randomized clinical ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, potentially dangerous new viruses can begin to spread in the population well before the global public health surveillance system can detect them. However, Yale ...
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers investigated how antigen concentration and viral load in different specimen types affected the performance of severe acute ...
Severity of a COVID-19 illness could be determined by examining autoantibodies in the nasal cavity, allowing more personalized treatment protocols. Severe COVID-19 can be life-threatening for patients ...
The race to 3D-print 4 million COVID-19 test swabs a week 3D printing companies hope to help produce tens of millions of swabs for the American public. It's a race against time.