Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Health Care Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2

We prospectively compared health care worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) to self-collected anterior nasal swabs (ANS) and straight saliva for the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 354 patients. The percent positive agreement between NPS and ANS or saliva was 86.3% (95% con...

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Published in:J Clin Microbiol
Main Authors: Hanson, K. E., Barker, A. P., Hillyard, D. R., Gilmore, N., Barrett, J. W., Orlandi, R. R., Shakir, S. M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Virology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587122/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32817233
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01824-20
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