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1 wrz 2023 · Highlights. •. Dogs are able to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections via smell. •. Twenty-seven studies were evaluated by a semiquantitative (QUADAS-2) and a quantitative tool. •. Quality features included design, sample choice and properties, dogs, and training.
Diseases produce specific scents in affected individuals via volatile organic compounds. This systematic review evaluates the current evidence for canine olfaction as a reliable coronavirus disease 2019 screening tool.
8 gru 2022 · Studies showed high accuracies for canine COVID-19-detection within seconds with similar or better detection performances than with antigen tests. Depending on disease prevalence and characteristics of the population to be screened, the performance can alter.
3 cze 2021 · Here we show that upon training explosives detection dogs on sniffing COVID-19 odor in patients’ sweat, those dogs were able to successfully screen out 3249 individuals who tested negative for...
7 maj 2022 · Canine olfaction is an accurate and feasible method for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, including asymptomatic and presymptomatic infected individuals.
5 mar 2021 · With the global spread of COVID-19 throughout the world and the need to have a real-time screening of the population, especially in crowded places, this study aimed to investigate the applicability of sniffer dogs to carry out such a task. Methods.
When a person is positive for COVID-19, they produce unique volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that the dogs are trained to detect using socks worn by previously tested COVID-19 infected individuals. For the training, the dogs were presented with various scents through a device called a scent wheel.
