Department of Medical Nanotechnology, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Pathol Res Pract. 2024 Oct;262:155565. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2024.155565. Epub 2024 Aug 29.
The fast spread and severe consequences of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have once again underscored the critical necessity of early detection of viral infections. Several serology-based techniques, including as point-of-care assays and high-throughput enzyme immunoassays that support the diagnosis of COVID-19 are utilized in the detection and identification of coronaviruses. A rapid, precise, simple, affordable, and adaptable diagnostic tool is required for controlling COVID-19 as well as for outbreak management, since the calculation and monitoring of viral loads are crucial for predicting the infection stage and recovery time. Nowadays, the most popular method for diagnosing COVID-19 is reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing, and chest computed tomography (CT) scans are also used to determine the disease's phases. This is all because of the fact that RT-PCR method caries with itself a number of downsides comprising of being immovable, expensive, and laborious. RT-PCR has not well proven to be capable of detection on the very early infection stages. Nanomaterial-based diagnostics, together with traditional clinical procedures, have a lot of promise against COVID-19. It is worthy of attention that nanotechnology has the mainstay capacity for purposes of developing even more modern stratagems fighting COVID-19 by means of focusing on state-of-the-art diagnostics. What we have centered on in this review, is bringing out even more efficient detection techniques whereby nanobiosensors are employed so that we might obstruct any further development and spreading of SARS-CoV-2.
新型冠状病毒病 2019(COVID-19)的快速传播和严重后果再次强调了早期检测病毒感染的至关重要性。几种基于血清学的技术,包括即时检测和高通量酶免疫测定,用于检测和鉴定冠状病毒。需要一种快速、精确、简单、经济实惠和适应性强的诊断工具来控制 COVID-19 以及疫情管理,因为计算和监测病毒载量对于预测感染阶段和恢复时间至关重要。如今,诊断 COVID-19 最流行的方法是逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)检测,胸部计算机断层扫描(CT)也用于确定疾病阶段。这是因为 RT-PCR 方法存在一些缺点,包括不灵活、昂贵和繁琐。RT-PCR 尚未被证明能够在早期感染阶段进行检测。基于纳米材料的诊断方法与传统的临床程序相结合,在对抗 COVID-19 方面具有很大的潜力。值得注意的是,纳米技术具有开发更现代的抗击 COVID-19 策略的主要能力,方法是专注于最先进的诊断。我们在本次综述中关注的是开发更有效的检测技术,即使用纳米生物传感器,以阻止 SARS-CoV-2 的进一步发展和传播。