Özet:

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the deaths of more than a million people worldwide, has clearly demonstrated the critical importance of microbiological diagnosis methods in the prevention of infectious diseases and control of epidemics. The most effective way to fight SARS-CoV-2 is to reduce the spread of the virus as much as possible. Reducing the spread of the virus is possible by means of diagnostic methods that enable all symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals who carry the virus to be detected as soon as possible and correctly. In the diagnosis and tracking of COVID-19 disease, a variety of microbiological methods recommended by international health authorities (serological tests, nuclear acid amplification methods) are widely used. The difficulties in the application of different diagnostic methods, including the real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PZR) method indicated as the gold standard method in the COVID-19 laboratory diagnosis by the World Health Organization, have been again understood in the pandemic process. In order to greater success in the fight against infections, a good determination of the standards of application and evaluation of existing microbiological diagnostics methods is necessary, and the development of new, low-cost methods that result correctly in the shortest time.

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