id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-300041-1d9xu4ts Chen, Sharon C-A Focus on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 2020-10-08 .txt text/plain 1024 60 52 In contrast, more recent pandemics have been dominated by viruses such as influenza H1N1 and H3N2, localised epidemics by Ebola virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-1 (SARS-CoV-1), MERS-CoV, and now, SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. However, by having a single edition, with broad focus on human pathology of SARS-CoV-2 infection, we aim to provide the readers of Pathology with insights from different areas of COVID-19 diagnosis. 2 Substantive progress continues to be made in the arena of diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection with improvements in molecular diagnostics, rapid antigen detection tests and serological assays. We continue to be faced by the risk of pandemics and we must learn from our observations at present with SARS-CoV-2 infection, and resulting COVID-19 disease. Virus isolation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) for diagnostic and research purposes Rapid deployment of pathology services to a remote Australian quarantine setting during the COVID-19 pandemic ./cache/cord-300041-1d9xu4ts.txt ./txt/cord-300041-1d9xu4ts.txt