Potential preanalytical and analytical vulnerabilities in the laboratory diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2020, Pages 1070-1076

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Simundic, Ana Maria ^b   Plebani, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

coronavirus; COVID 19; diagnosis; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PHASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRE-ANALYTICAL PHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SPECIMEN HANDLING; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL ERROR; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MEDICAL ERROR; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; COVID-19; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SARS-COV-2; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTAL ERROR; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 85082807468     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2020-0285     Document Type: Review

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