Covid-19: Biomedical Perspectives, Volume 50 in the Methods in Microbiology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Individual chapters in this new release include Sensitive methods for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, Treatment of COVID-19 using Chinese herbal medicine, Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 is evolving and its impact on COVID-19 animal models and vaccine evaluation, Methods in machine learning to identify COVID-19 literature, COVID-19 seasonal behavior and the mutational landscape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, CRISPR use in Diagnosis and Therapy for COVID-19, and much more.
Chapter 1. Sensitive methods for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA
Chapter 2. The seasonal behaviour of COVID-19 and its galectin-like culprit of the viral spike
Chapter 3. Current molecular diagnostics assays for SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants
Chapter 4. CRISPR use in diagnosis and therapy for COVID-19
Chapter 5. Recent and advanced nano-technological strategies for COVID-19 vaccine development
Chapter 6. A review of hypersensitivity methods to detect immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
Chapter 7. Hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and how it might be overcome
Chapter 8. COVID-19 vaccines for high risk and immunocompromised patients