Diagnosis of COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic that emerged at the beginning of this year spread rapidly all over the world. The most effective way to combat such a large-scale epidemic is to quickly diagnose infected individuals and take necessary isolation measures. Although rapid antigen tests used in the first stage in the diagnosis of COVID-19, they have quickly left their places to molecular-based real-time PCR tests due to sensitivity problems. Antibody response based diagnosis can be problematic because those found can become detectable as early as 2 weeks after the onset of infection, which is not a suitable acquisition for the diagnosis of acute infection. In this article, applications and methods used for the diagnosis of COVID-19, will be discussed.