| Title: | "Use of Breath Analysis for Diagnosing COVID-19: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations for Future Pandemic Responses" |
| Author(s): | Abumeeiz M; Elliott L; Olla P; |
| Address: | "Audacia Bioscience, Windsor, Ontario, Canada" |
| Journal Title: | Disaster Med Public Health Prep |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1938-744X (Electronic) 1935-7893 (Print) 1935-7893 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there is currently a need for accurate, rapid, and easy-to-administer diagnostic tools to help communities manage local outbreaks and assess the spread of disease. The use of artificial intelligence within the domain of breath analysis techniques has shown to have potential in diagnosing a variety of diseases, such as cancer and lung disease, by analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath. This combined with their rapid, easy-to-use, and noninvasive nature makes them a good candidate for use in diagnosing COVID-19 in large scale public health operations. However, there remains issues with their implementation when it comes to the infrastructure currently available to support their use on a broad scale. This includes issues of standardization, and whether or not a characteristic VOC pattern can be identified for COVID-19. Despite these difficulties, breathalyzers offer potential to assist in pandemic responses and their use should be investigated" |
| Keywords: | Humans *COVID-19/diagnosis/epidemiology Pandemics Artificial Intelligence Breath Tests/methods Exhalation *Volatile Organic Compounds Covid-19 efficacy pandemic public health technology volatile organic compounds; |
| Notes: | "MedlineAbumeeiz, Mustafa Elliott, Lauren Olla, Phillip eng 2021/10/16 Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Oct; 16(5):2137-2140. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2021.317. Epub 2021 Oct 15" |
