ThaiScience  


JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL SCIENCE


Volume 14, No. 01, Month JANUARY, Year 2021, Pages 9 - 20


Novel screening method for covid-19 detection by scent dogs

Thamonphan Wimonsrinarachai, Natapol Pumipuntu


Abstract Download PDF

At present, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus is severe and widespread around the world.Many various types of diagnostic methods for screening severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2) infection in patients including molecular detection techniques, immunological tests and imaging diagnostic technique have been developed and adjusted globally. Nevertheless, real-time reverse transcriptasepolymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is used as the "gold standard" for detecting SARS-CoV-2 from patient samples, generally. This method takes long period to screening test and sample collection methods often results in the person being tested feeling pain or uncomfortable. Nowadays, one of the most interesting SARS-CoV-2 screening method that has been recently studied is the detection by scent dogs. It could be a novel reasonable technique for a first line screening method that detecting the unusual or specific odour from infected patients. Thus, this review article is aimed to gather the evidences from previous studies and experiments which revealed that scent dogs can use as the screening method of infected patients from SARS-CoV-2


Keywords

SARS-CoV-2, scent dogs, screening test



JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL SCIENCE


Published by : Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University
Contributions welcome at : http://www.vs.mahidol.ac.th/jaas/