Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2

A. Wyllie, J. Fournier, A. Casanovas-Massana, M. Campbell, M. Tokuyama, P. Vijayakumar, J. Warren, B. Geng, M. Muenker, A. Moore, C. Vogels, M. Petrone, I. Ott, P. Lu, A. Venkataraman, Alice Lu-Culligan, J. Klein, R. Earnest, M. Simonov, R. Datta, Ryan Handoko, N. Naushad, L. Sewanan, Jordan Valdez, Elizabeth B. White, S. Lapidus, C. Kalinich, Xiaodong Jiang, Daniel J Kim, E. Kudo, Melissa M Linehan, Tianyang Mao, Miyu Moriyama, Ji-eun Oh, Annsea Park, Julio Silva, E. Song, Takehiro Takahashi, M. Taura, Orr-El Weizman, P. Wong, Yexin Yang, S. Bermejo, C. Odio, S. Omer, C. D. Dela Cruz, S. Farhadian, R. Martinello, A. Iwasaki, N. Grubaugh, A. Ko

The New England journal of medicine, 2020

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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Field of study: Medicine

10.1056/NEJMc2016359