TY - JOUR AU - Muhammad, Nawshad AU - Khan, Amir AU - Shah, Inayat PY - 2021/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Saliva is a Non-Invasive Body Fluid for Rapid Detection of Coronavirus JF - ADVANCES IN BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES JA - Adv Basic Med Sci VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Editorial DO - 10.35845/abms.2021.2.199 UR - https://abms.kmu.edu.pk/index.php/abms/article/view/199 SP - 24-25 AB - <p>Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been rendered the toughest pandemic of the current century.<sup>1</sup> 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.<sup>2</sup> 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.<sup>3</sup></p> ER -