A Review of Salivary Diagnostics and Its Potential Implication in Detection of Covid-19

Santosh, Tatikonda Sri; Parmar, Reshu; Anand, Hanish; Srikanth, Konkati; Mohanan, Saritha

doi:10.7759/cureus.7708

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“…Like most respiratory infections, SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted through respiratory droplets, direct contact, and possibly through aerosol-generating procedures such as many dental procedures [ 3 ]. There have also been calls to assess the risk of transmission through saliva [ 4 ], and whether asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic patients can transmit the infection [ 3 ].…”

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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey

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Background COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in 26 countries. Methods We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to April 2020. The survey collected data on knowledge of COVID-19 regarding the mode of transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, protection, and dental treatment precautions as well as participants’ background variables. Multilevel linear models were used to assess the association between dental academics’ knowledge of COVID-19 and individual level (personal and professional) and country-level (number of COVID-19 cases/ million population) factors accounting for random variation among countries. Results Two thousand forty-five academics participated in the survey (response rate 14.3%, with 54.7% female and 67% younger than 46 years of age). The mean (SD) knowledge percent score was 73.2 (11.2) %, and the score of knowledge of symptoms was significantly lower than the score of knowledge of diagnostic methods (53.1 and 85.4%, P < 0.0001). Knowledge score was significantly higher among those living with a partner/spouse than among those living alone (regression coefficient (B) = 0.48); higher among those with PhD degrees than among those with Bachelor of Dental Science degrees (B = 0.48); higher among those seeing 21 to 30 patients daily than among those seeing no patients (B = 0.65); and higher among those from countries with a higher number of COVID-19 cases/million population (B = 0.0007). Conclusions Dental academics had poorer knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms than of COVID-19 diagnostic methods. Living arrangements, academic degrees, patient load, and magnitude of the epidemic in the country were associated with COVD-19 knowledge among dental academics. Training of dental academics on COVID-19 can be designed using these findings to recruit those with the greatest need.

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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey

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“…The relevance of this article is related to the proportion taken by the COVID-19 pandemic and at the greater risk of infection by the dental personal (17). The results revealed that at least three of the main symptoms associated with COVID-19 (dry cough, shortness of breath, and high fever) were well known to dentists in the primary and secondary level of care.…”

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Brazilian Primary and Secondary Public Oral Health Attention: Are Dentists Ready to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Vieira‐Meyer

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Santos

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Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: Investigate knowledge and practice of Brazilian public primary and secondary healthcare dentists during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An online questionnaire, with socio-demographic and COVID-19 knowledge questions, was utilized. Results: A total of 4,048 dentists working in the Brazilian public primary and secondary healthcare system were investigated. 4,024 (99.41%) believe COVID-19 can be transmitted through dental procedures. It was observed a fair level of COVID-19 symptoms knowledge by these dentists (3.76±1.27 of 6.00), as well as a disbelieve in the actual personal protective equipment (3,382; 83.55%) and biosafety procedures (3,278; 80.98%) utilized as an efficient form of COVID-19 transmission prevention. Country region, performance of social distancing, dental specialty, the believe on personal protective equipment and biosafety preventive measures influenced the likelihood of dentists to perform dental treatment, either elective or urgent, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: The need of extra preventive barriers for dental treatment may bring an extra financial stress in the Brazilian public primary and secondary healthcare system, as well as in the patient-dentist relationship, which may have to be reframed. Internationally accepted public guidelines policies regarding dental treatment safety, as well as the technological development of preventive tools, are needed to deal with the challenges brought by COVID-19.

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“…As the COVID-19 disease spread is terrifying all over the world, screening, quarantine, and providing appropriate treatment to COVID-19 patients has become the first priority in the current scenario. But the global standard diagnostic pathogenic laboratory testing is massive time consuming and more costly with significant false-negative results [52]. At the same time, tests are are hardly to be taken place in the common healthcare centres or hospital due to limited resources and places compared with the high volume of cases at one time.…”

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A Survey on Deep Transfer Learning and Edge Computing for Mitigating the COVID-19

Sufian¹,

Ghosh²,

Sadiq³

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A Review of Salivary Diagnostics and Its Potential Implication in Detection of Covid-19

Cited by 109 publications

References 42 publications

Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey

Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey

Brazilian Primary and Secondary Public Oral Health Attention: Are Dentists Ready to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic?

A Survey on Deep Transfer Learning and Edge Computing for Mitigating the COVID-19

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