Journal: Talanta

Article Title: Commercialized diagnostic technologies to combat SARS-CoV2: Advantages and disadvantages

doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121898

Figure Lengend Snippet: Commercially available real time RT-PCR kits for a rapid coronavirus infection diagnosis in humans (LOD: Limit of Detection, NR = Not reported).

Article Snippet: Kogene (Korea) , PowerChekTM Real Time PCR , EUA Korean CDC (Feb 4, 2020) , Nasopharyngeal swabs and throat swab , RdRp, E , NR , NR.

Techniques: Quantitative RT-PCR, Infection, Biomarker Discovery, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Multiplex Assay, Luminex

Journal: BMC Infectious Diseases

Article Title: Low sensitivity of a urine LAM-ELISA in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-141

Figure Lengend Snippet: Sensitivity and specificity of the LAM-ELISA at different cut-offs .

Article Snippet: The recruitment of the study participants comprised interviews regarding medical history of participants, clinical examination, chest radiography, HIV pre-/ and post-test counselling, sample collection (3 or 4× sputum, 2× urine, 1× blood), HIV testing, urine dipstick testing (Multistix ® 10 SG, Bayer Diagnostics, Bridgend, UK), sputum microscopy after Ziehl Neelsen staining, sputum culture on solid (Löwenstein Jensen) and liquid media (BACTECTM MGIT, Becton Dickinson, Sparks, USA), and duplicate ELISA testing for lipoarabinomannan (MTB ELISA Test ® , Chemogen, Portland, USA) in urine.

Techniques: Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay