2021, Cilt 51, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 099-108 |
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Microbiological Diagnostic Methods in COVID-19 Pandemic |
Aybala Temel1, Ayşegül Ateş2, Bayrı Eraç2 |
1İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi, Eczacılık Fakültesi, Farmasötik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye 2Ege Üniversitesi Eczacılık Fakültesi, Farmasötik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye |
Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, RT-PCR, serological tests, CRISPR |
COVID-19 pandemic that caused the death of more than one million people worldwide, has clearly
demonstrated the critical importance of microbiological diagnostic methods in preventing infectious
diseases and controlling outbreaks. The most effective way for combating SARS-CoV-2, is reducing
the spread of the virus as much as possible. To decrease the spread of the virus is only possible with
diagnostic methods that enable the detection of all symptomatic or asymptomatic patients infected
with the virus accurately and as early as possible. Various microbiological methods (serological
tests, nucleic acid amplification methods) recommended by international health authorities are
widely used in the diagnosis and follow-up of COVID-19 disease. The challenges experienced in
application of diagnostic methods, including real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method,
which is specified as the gold standard method in the diagnosis of COVID-19 by the World Health
Organization, were once again acknowledged during the pandemic. To achieve higher success rates
in combating infections, it is necessary to better determine the application and evaluation standards
in current microbiological diagnostic methods, to develop new cost-effective methods that are
easily applicable and yielding results within a short time.
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