COVID-19:

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" COVID-19: "
Touma, Marlin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	913247
Doc. No	:	LA9p00670b
Title & Author	:	COVID-19:. molecular diagnostics overview. [Article]\ Touma, Marlin
Date	:	2020
Title of Periodical	:	UCLA
Abstract	:	The last day of 2019 delivered the first report to the World Health Organization (WHO) about a group of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China. Subsequent investigations identified the new comer, a novel coronavirus related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and thus was termed as SARS-CoV-2. Being very contagious, the new virus led the era of "COVID-19" which is the acronym of "coronavirus disease 2019," evoking an imminent threat to global health security with unprecedented devastating challenges to human kind. In this article, we provide a molecular overview on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and summarize tremendous efforts that have been made to develop a rapid confirmatory diagnostic test for COVID-19. The diagnostic performances of the available tests are analyzed based on the best current information from the early research.