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

Anne L. Wyllie , John Fournier , Arnau Casanovas‐Massana , Anne L. Wyllie , John Fournier , Arnau Casanovas‐Massana , 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
2020 New England Journal of Medicine 1,028 citations

Abstract

In this letter, the investigators report that saliva specimens and nasopharyngeal swab specimens had similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both symptomatic and asymptomatic persons.

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SalivaAsymptomaticSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)VirologyMedicine2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPathologyInternal medicineOutbreakInfectious disease (medical specialty)

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2020
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383
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13
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1283-1286
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Anne L. Wyllie, John Fournier, Arnau Casanovas‐Massana et al. (2020). Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2. New England Journal of Medicine , 383 (13) , 1283-1286. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2016359

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