Performance of Oropharyngeal Swab Testing Compared With Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for Diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019—United States, January 2020–February 2020

Among 146 nasopharyngeal (NP) and oropharyngeal (OP) swab pairs collected ≤7 days after illness onset, Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction assay for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR) diagnostic results were 95.2% concordant. However, NP swab cy...

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Published in:Clin Infect Dis
Main Authors: Patel, Monita R, Carroll, Darin, Ussery, Emily, Whitham, Hilary, Elkins, Christopher A, Noble-Wang, Judith, Rasheed, James Kamile, Lu, Xiaoyan, Lindstrom, Stephen, Bowen, Virginia, Waller, Jessica, Armstrong, Gregory, Gerber, Susan, Brooks, John T
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Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Brief Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337670/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33527126
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa759
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