| Abbreviation | Description |
| AuNPs | Gold nanoparticles |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus disease |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| EWA | Evanescent Wave Absorbance |
| FET | Field-effect transistor |
| GOF | Glass optical fiber |
| LAMP | Loop-mediated isothermal amplification |
| LSPCF | Localized surface plasmon coupled fluorescence |
| MERS-CoV | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| PFAB | Plasmonic fiber-optic absorbance biosensor |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| CRISPR | Clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| RT-PCR | Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| SARS-CoV | Coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SARS-CoV-2 | Coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 |
| SPR | Surface plasmon resonance |