Saliva Testing Is Accurate for Early-Stage and Presymptomatic COVID-19

Saliva Testing Is Accurate for Early-Stage and Presymptomatic COVID-19

ABSTRACT Although nasopharyngeal samples have been considered the gold standard for COVID-19 testing, variability in viral load across different anatomical sites could cause nasopharyngeal samples to be less sensitive than saliva or nasal samples in certain cases. Self-collected samples have logisti...

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Main Authors: Abigail J. Johnson, Shannon Zhou, Susan L. Hoops, Benjamin Hillmann, Matthew Schomaker, Robyn Kincaid, Jerry Daniel, Kenneth Beckman, Daryl M. Gohl, Sophia Yohe, Dan Knights, Andrew C. Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-09-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
saliva
testing
symptoms
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00086-21

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00086-21

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