{"id":4164,"date":"2020-02-10T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:55:38","slug":"evolving-status-of-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-infection-proposal-of-conventional-serologic-assays-for-disease-diagnosis-and-infection-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/evolving-status-of-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-infection-proposal-of-conventional-serologic-assays-for-disease-diagnosis-and-infection-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving status of the 2019 novel coronavirus Infection: proposal of conventional serologic assays for disease diagnosis and infection monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers explain the need for developing serological assays for 2019-nCoV testing. Real-time RT-PCR or next-generation sequencing are the primary methods for confirming 2019-nCoV infection, but with limited supplies, the number of cases that can be tested is restricted and delayed. Researchers propose conventional serological assays as a potential alternative.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A backlog of tests in China produces artificial jumps in daily case reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sensitivity and specificity of the predominant testing methods have not been assessed yet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xiao et al. (Feb 7, 2020). Evolving status of the 2019 novel coronavirus Infection: proposal of conventional serologic assays for disease diagnosis and infection monitoring. J Med Virology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.25702\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.25702<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers explain the need for developing serological assays for 2019-nCoV testing. Real-time RT-PCR or next-generation sequencing are the primary methods for confirming 2019-nCoV infection, but with limited supplies, the number of cases that can be tested is restricted and delayed. Researchers propose conventional serological assays as a potential alternative.\u00a0 A backlog of tests in China&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/evolving-status-of-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-infection-proposal-of-conventional-serologic-assays-for-disease-diagnosis-and-infection-monitoring\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}