Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva: Implications for late-stage diagnosis and infectious duration.

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva: Implications for late-stage diagnosis and infectious duration.

Saliva has been a COVID-19 diagnostic specimen of interest due to its simple collection, scalability, and yield. Yet COVID-19 testing and estimates of the infectious period remain largely based on nasopharyngeal and nasal swabs. We sought to evaluate whether saliva testing captured prolonged presenc...

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Main Authors: Abby Chopoorian, Padmapriya Banada, Robert Reiss, David Elson, Samuel Desind, Claire Park, Sukalyani Banik, Emily Hennig, Aanchal Wats, Austin Togba, Abraham Wei, Naranjargal Daivaa, Laura Palo, Mitchell Hirsch, Carter Campbell, Pooja Saiganesh, David Alland, Yingda L Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282708

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282708

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