The detection dogs test is more sensitive than real-time PCR in screening for SARS-CoV-2.

ABSTRACT: In January 2020, the coronavirus disease was declared, by the World Health Organization as a global public health emergency. Recommendations from the WHO COVID Emergency Committee continue to support strengthening COVID surveillance systems, including timely access to effective diagnostics. Questions were raised about the validity of considering the RT-PCR as the gold standard in COVID-19 diagnosis. It has been suggested that a variety of methods should be used to evaluate advocated tests. Dogs had been successfully trained and employed to detect diseases in humans. Here we show that upon training explosives detection dogs on sniffing COVID-19 odor in patients' sweat, those dogs were able to successfully screen out 3249 individuals who tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2, from a cohort of 3

SUBMITTER: Hag-Ali M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature