Abstract

REVIEW: SEROLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COVID-19

Soumitra Sahana, Sourav Nag*, Reshmi Paul, Gobinda Mondal, Sk Abdur Rahamat, Sariful Islam, Indranil Chatterjee and Suman Kumar Nath

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19), induced via a ß-Coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, has turn out to be a world pandemic considering that its beginning in Wuhan, China throughout the remaining week of December 2019, affecting 212 nations and territories in the World involving all the 5 continents. As stage of the contamination can't be ascertained throughout series of respiratory specimens for nucleic acid check (NAT; RT-PCR).Virus excretion would be most throughout scientific illness that follows incubation length of normally up to ~14 days and scientific samples gathered at some point of this length are appropriate for PCR prognosis than these accrued after medical sickness. Available statistics point out that about 50% of the humans uncovered to SARS-CoV-2 contamination can also grow to be asymptomatic, as was once located in case of the COVID-19 affected Japan cruise ship „Diamond Princess‟ with 3,711 humans on board. In case of asymptomatic and slight symptomatic cases, due to low virus load in the medical specimens collected, the terrible end result in NAT/PCR want to be move checked the use of a appropriate antibody assay. We summarized the Serology, epidemiological, diagnosis of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, RT-PCR, Asymptomatic, Serology, epidemiological, diagnosis.