Futurity April 5, 2024
With new cases, hospitalizations, and mortality rates holding steady in many parts of the world, researchers have developed a faster, more accurate detection technique for COVID-19.
A new study in Advanced Materials Interface describes the rapid diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 detection and quantification directly from human nasopharyngeal swabs using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and deep learning algorithms.
The overall process for the test is comparable to the results from polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for COVID-19 and other respiratory virus infection diagnosis tests, using a simple procedure requiring less than 15 minutes.
“The new technique has several advantages over current methods, including speed, accuracy, and the quantification of viral load beyond simply ‘positive or negative,’” says Yiping Zhao, research professor in the...
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