SARS-CoV-2 testing in the Slovak Republic from March 2020 to September 2022 – summary of the pandemic trends

At-home sample collection is an effective strategy for diagnosis and management of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers

(2022) Devon P. Humphreys et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Nasopharyngeal swabs vs. saliva sampling for SARS-CoV-2 detection: A cross-sectional survey of acceptability for caregivers and children after experiencing both methods

(2022) François Gagnon et al.   PLoS One

The Relationship Between Population-Level SARS-CoV-2 Cycle Threshold Values and Trend of COVID-19 Infection: Longitudinal Study

(2022) Paria Dehesh et al.   JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Nucleic Acid Testing of SARS-CoV-2

(2021) Hee-Min Yoo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course

(2021) Terry C. Jones et al.   SCIENCE

Estimating epidemiologic dynamics from cross-sectional viral load distributions

(2021) James A. Hay et al.   SCIENCE

Ct threshold values, a proxy for viral load in community SARS-CoV-2 cases, demonstrate wide variation across populations and over time

(2021) A Sarah Walker et al.   eLife

Use of the p-values as a size-dependent function to address practical differences when analyzing large datasets

(2021) Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal et al.   Scientific Reports

Leveraging of SARS-CoV-2 PCR Cycle Thresholds Values to Forecast COVID-19 Trends

(2021) Nicolas Yin et al.   Frontiers in Medicine

The Role of SARS-CoV-2 Testing on Hospitalizations in California

(2021) José Cricelio Montesinos-López et al.   Life-Basel

Complement related pattern recognition molecules as markers of short-term mortality in intensive care patients

(2020) Cecilie B. Hansen et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

(2020) Chaolin Huang et al.   LANCET

To Interpret the SARS-CoV-2 Test, Consider the Cycle Threshold Value

(2020) Michael R Tom et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Presepsin in risk stratification of SARS-CoV-2 patients

(2020) Martina Zaninotto et al.   CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA

Biomarkers associated with COVID-19 disease progression

(2020) Giovanni Ponti et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES

A Narrative Systematic Review of the Clinical Utility of Cycle Threshold Values in the Context of COVID-19

(2020) Sonia N. Rao et al.   Infectious Diseases and Therapy

Overall decrease of SARS-CoV-2 viral load and reduction of clinical burden: the experience of a Northern Italy hospital

(2020) Chiara Piubelli et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

A meta-analysis on the role of children in SARS-CoV-2 in household transmission clusters

(2020) Yanshan Zhu et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Comparison of saliva and nasopharyngeal swab SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR testing in a community setting

(2020) Monique Torres et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION