Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2
Author(s) -
Anne L. Wyllie,
John Fournier,
Arnau CasanovasMassana,
Melissa Campbell,
Maria Tokuyama,
Pavithra Vijayakumar,
Joshua L. Warren,
Bertie Geng,
M. Catherine Muenker,
Adam J. Moore,
Chantal B. F. Vogels,
Mary E. Petrone,
Isabel M. Ott,
Peiwen Lu,
Arvind Venkataraman,
Alice Lu-Culligan,
Jon Klein,
Rebecca Earnest,
Michael Simonov,
Rupak Datta,
Ryan Handoko,
Nida Naushad,
Lorenzo R. Sewanan,
Jordan Valdez,
Elizabeth B. White,
Sarah Lapidus,
Chaney C. Kalinich,
Xiaodong Jiang,
Daniel J. Kim,
Eriko Kudo,
Melissa Linehan,
Tianyang Mao,
Miyu Moriyama,
Ji Eun Oh,
Annsea Park,
Julio Silva,
Eric Song,
Takehiro Takahashi,
Manabu Taura,
Orr-El Weizman,
Patrick Wong,
Yexin Yang,
Santos Bermejo,
Camila D. Odio,
Saad B. Omer,
Charles S. Dela Cruz,
Shelli Farhadian,
Richard A. Martinello,
Akiko Iwasaki,
Nathan D. Grubaugh,
Albert I. Ko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmc2016359
Subject(s) - saliva , asymptomatic , covid-19 , virology , medicine , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Saliva Specimens to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Infection In this letter, the investigators report that saliva specimens and nasopharyngeal swab specimens had similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS-CoV...
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