Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

The detection dogs test is more sensitive than real-time PCR in screening for SARS-CoV-2

  • Mohammed Hag-Ali,
  • Abdul Salam AlShamsi,
  • Linda Boeijen,
  • Yasser Mahmmod,
  • Rashid Manzoor,
  • Harry Rutten,
  • Marshal M. Mweu,
  • Mohamed El-Tholoth,
  • Abdullatif Alteraifi AlShamsi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02232-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Hag-Ali and colleagues highlight the potential for using trained dogs for detecting COVID-19 positive patients. The dogs, originally trained for explosives detection, were able to detect COVID-19 positive sweat samples with a sensitivity rivaling the gold-standard RT-PCR test currently used.