id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-274707-mxh38hwd Laureano, Ana Flávia Santarine The different tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 - A review in Brazil so far 2020 .txt text/plain 3736 204 50 The virus is now widespread and causing the current pandemic of COVID-19, a highly pathogenic viral pneumonia, commonly presented with fever and cough, which frequently lead to lower respiratory tract disease with poor clinical outcomes associated with older age and underlying health conditions. Most rapid tests use colloidal gold particles in a technique known as immunochromatography, also called lateral flow immunoassay, a type of sandwich assay that relies on a pair of antibodies used to recognize two independent epitopes of a protein, and therefore it can achieve high specificity (Zhou et al., 2012) . One of the first rapid tests (lateral flow immunoassay) for SARS-CoV-2 IgG and IgM immune responses was developed by professor's Feng Ye group at the National Clinical Research Centre for Respiratory Disease in Guangzhou, China. Development and Clinical Application of A Rapid IgM-IgG Combined Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Diagnosis ./cache/cord-274707-mxh38hwd.txt ./txt/cord-274707-mxh38hwd.txt