Lateral Flow Assays in Infectious Disease Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lateral flow immunoassays are widely used as diagnostic tests in many applications in human and other diagnostic areas. Assays for human applications have been commercially available since the 1980s and initially were primarily used to identify pregnancy by measuring human chorionic gonadotropin in urine and serum/plasma.

Content

The first infectious disease lateral flow assays were commercialized in the late 1980s identifying the presence of Group A Streptococcus pyogenes collected with throat swabs; innumerable other applications followed in the intervening decades. The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has brought a vast number of new assays for which emergency use authorization (EUA) has been requested in the USA. These assa

SUBMITTER: Boehringer HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9383164 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature