Laboratory Medicine ›› 2020, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 843-848.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2020.08.023

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Application of clinical laboratory testing techniques in the diagnosis of COVID-19

DU Jinghui, LI Sha, LIU Xu   

  1. The First Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin 300193,China
  • Received:2020-03-19 Online:2020-08-30 Published:2020-09-24

Abstract:

Corona virus disease 2019(COVID-19) at the end of 2019 poses a serious and immediate threat to national and global public health. For its diagnosis and treatment,clinical laboratory testing has important reference value,and the nucleic acid detection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) is the gold standard in the diagnosis of COVID-19. This review focuses on clinical laboratory testing techniques in the definite diagnosis,differential diagnosis and auxiliary diagnosis of COVID-19,in order to provide clinicians and laboratory workers with guidance on the clinical laboratory testing techniques for the diagnosis of COVID-19.

Key words: Corona virus disease 2019, Clinical laboratory testing technique, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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