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

By A. Wyllie, John B. Fournier, A. Casanovas-Massana, M. Campbell, M. Tokuyama, P. Vijayakumar, J. Warren, B. Geng, M. Muenker, A. Moore and 41 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020

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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...

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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