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cord-033780-184e64tr	Smith, Rasheid	Implications of current and future approaches to coronavirus disease 2019 testing	2020-10-13		.txt	text/plain	3266	154	44	The current reality is that SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible airborne disease with a broad presentation of symptoms and leaves lasting damage in severe cases, and for which there is a scarcity of effective medications to treat it. Using the cycle threshold value in this manner only informs as to the presence of the virus and may not reveal disease progression, severity and viral load in the sample; and as such the results are largely qualitative despite the inherent quantitative nature of real-time RT-PCR [27] . Nevertheless, initial studies have demonstrated that chest CT imaging is more accurate than RT-PCR at detecting SARS-CoV-2 patients [32] with 97.2% versus 83% in the early stages of infection [33] . Immunoassays (antibody serum tests), such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), are used to detect the presence of serum antibodies (either IgA, IgG or IgM) to viral proteins and can indicate when a person has developed an immune response to SARS-CoV-2. Rapid detection of COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in human nasopharyngeal swab specimens using field-effect transistor-based biosensor	./cache/cord-033780-184e64tr.txt	./txt/cord-033780-184e64tr.txt