Current challenges in COVID-19 diagnosis: a narrative review and implications for clinical practice

Current challenges in COVID-19 diagnosis: a narrative review and implications for clinical practice

Early diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is crucial to early treatment and quarantine measures. In this narrative review, diagnostic tools for COVID-19 diagnosis and their main critical issues were reviewed. The COVID-19 real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PC...

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Main Authors:	Gabriella Nucera, Francesco Chirico, Valentina Raffaelli, Pietro Marino
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PAGEPress Publications 2021-09-01
Series:	Italian Journal of Medicine
Subjects:	COVID-19 computed tomography scan diagnosis imaging real time-polymerase chain reaction SARS-CoV- 2
Online Access:	https://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/1474

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