Author:
Ali Sikander,Mahboob Saba,Tahir Kalsoom,Aftab Muhammad Nauman
Abstract
Background: Viral diseases pose a serious health hazard to human population, worldwide. A perfect illustration of how a viral infection could pose a serious threat to public health and economic sectors is the current COVID-19 outbreak brought on by SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. Consequently, obtaining a prompt and accurate diagnosis is the first step in treating infections. For effective treatment, epidemic control, and prevention, early and precise identification of microbial presence in patient samples is essential.
Methods: This study lists some of the molecular and immunological diagnostic methods that can be used to find infections in human beings. Rapid viral detection in patient samples is possible by the use of molecular diagnostic techniques. These techniques are also reasonably cheap, quite sensitive, and very targeted. Infections in human beings have been detected and the epidemiology of these illnesses has been widely studied using immunologically based methods.
Results: In clinical samples, these methods can identify viral antigens or antiviral antibodies. Many commercially accessible molecular and immunological diagnostic kits make it easier to employ these techniques in most clinical laboratories around the world.
Conclusion: This review offers a new perspective on molecular techniques employed in the application of the clinical diagnostics of microbes.
Publisher
University of Management and Technology