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Title: SARS-CoV-2 breath tests implementation for the rapid COVID-19 surveillance: a game changer? A review of existing data.
Autores: Vallejo Degaudenzi, Alejandro G.
Hernández, Daniela M.
Hidalgo Rosario, Daniela I.
Contreras Matos, Elisa
Ceballos Villacampa, María Laura
Polanco Valdez, Mariel
Reynoso Ortega, Máximo Elías
Hernández Quezada, Nicole
Marranzini, Camila
Paulino-Ramírez, Robert
Researchers (UNIBE): Vallejo Degaudenzi, Alejandro G. 
Hernández, Daniela M. 
Hidalgo Rosario, Daniela I. 
Contreras Matos, Elisa 
Ceballos Villacampa, María Laura 
Polanco Valdez, Mariel 
Reynoso Ortega, Máximo Elías 
Hernández Quezada, Nicole 
Marranzini, Camila 
Paulino-Ramírez, Robert 
Affiliations: Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Research area: Ciencias de la Salud
Keywords: COVID-19; Breath test; Surveillance; Diagnosis; SARS-CoV-2
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Sociedade Regional de Ensino e Saúde
Source: InterAmerican Journal of Medicine and Health, 4, e202101022, 1-6; 2022
Journal: InterAmerican Journal of Medicine and Health 
Volume: 4
Issue: e202101022
Start page: 1
End page: 6
Abstract: 
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been spread across the globe for almost a year, causing economic, social, and psychological impacts with yet unknown dimensions. In emerging and reemerging pathogen surveillance and detection, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a classic laboratory technique that has been widely used for the amplification and identification of nucleic acids. Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in breath has been long reviewed as a potential diagnostics tool for many diseases. The overall specificity for SARS-CoV-2 of these methods was a calculated 69%,30 which is a low value for reliable detection. Breath tests are not a sufficiently evidence-based approach for rapid screening and to "secure" or creating "sanctuary" regions for touristic purposes. Therefore, policy-makers must cautiously point out the importance of further evaluation and structured studies confronting gold-standards with new devices.
URI: http://cris.unibe.edu.do/handle/123456789/371
DOI: 10.31005/iajmh.v4i.198
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