Saliva is a Non-Invasive Body Fluid for Rapid Detection of Coronavirus

Abstract

Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been rendered the toughest pandemic of the current century.¹ Like other zoonotic viruses (anthrax) the Coronavirus has been transmitted from vertebrate animals to human beings and further spreads through direct, indirect contact transmission. The associated symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, cough, tiredness, and impairment of taste, and more adversely chest pain and difficulty in breathing or other respiratory diseases.² The current SARSCoV2 began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and now many variants of them have been reported in many countries around the world. Coronaviruses are positive-sense single stranded RNA viruses. Coronaviruses belong to the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae that has been divided into i.e. alpha, beta, gamma, and delta genera.³