Sensitivity of Nasopharyngeal Swabs and Saliva for the Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2

We enrolled 91 consecutive inpatients with COVID-19 at 6 hospitals in Toronto, Canada, and tested 1 nasopharyngeal swab/saliva sample pair from each patient using real-time RT-PCR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Sensitivity was 89% for nasopharyngeal swabs and 72% for saliva (P ...

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Publicado en:Clin Infect Dis
Main Authors: Jamal, Alainna J, Mozafarihashjin, Mohammad, Coomes, Eric, Powis, Jeff, Li, Angel X, Paterson, Aimee, Anceva-Sami, Sofia, Barati, Shiva, Crowl, Gloria, Faheem, Amna, Farooqi, Lubna, Khan, Saman, Prost, Karren, Poutanen, Susan, Taylor, Maureen, Yip, Lily, Zhong, Xi Zoe, McGeer, Allison J, Mubareka, Samira
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337630/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32584972
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa848
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