From chaos to clarity: The scientometric breakthrough in COVID-19 research.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the world for over three years, generating unprecedented social changes in recent human history.

Aims: We aimed to scientometrically summarize a global and temporal overview of publications on COVID-19 in the two worst years of the pandemic and its progression in early 2022, after the start of vaccination.

Methods: Using the Web of Science database, this review covered the period from late 2019 to March 2022 and included all publications identified using the following terms: "SARS-CoV-2", "COVID-19", "Coronavirus Disease 19", and "2019-nCoV".

Performance of RT-qPCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 in unextracted nasopharyngeal samples using the Seegene Allplex 2019-nCoV protocol.

The rapid spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led the world to a pandemic. Therefore, rapid, sensitive, and reproducible diagnostic tests are essential to indicate which measures should be taken during pandemics. We retrospectively tested unextracted nasopharyngeal samples from consecutive patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection (n = 334), and compared two different Ct cut-off values for interpretation of results using a modified Allplex protocol.