Contributions of vibrational spectroscopy to virology: A review

Vibrational spectroscopic techniques, both infrared absorption and Raman scattering, are high precision, label free analytical techniques which have found applications in fields as diverse chemistry, pharmacology, forensics archeometrics and, recent times, attracted increasing attention for biomedical applications. As they been applied to the characterisation of viruses early 1970 s, context coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, explored response World Health Organisation novel methodologies aid global efforts implement improve rapid screening viral infection. This review considers history application vibrational morphology chemical compositions viruses, their attachment to, uptake by replication cells, potential detection population screening, infection monitoring Particular consideration is devoted severe acute respiratory syndrome 2, COVID-19.