{"id":10172,"date":"2021-06-03T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T22:06:23","slug":"performance-of-self-collected-saliva-testing-compared-with-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/03\/performance-of-self-collected-saliva-testing-compared-with-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of Self-Collected Saliva Testing Compared with Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was high correlation in the SARS-CoV-2 viral load measurements from paired self-collected pure saliva (SCPS) and nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) from asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients with confirmed COVID-19 (r=0.72; n=31). SCPS performance was more similar to NPS among samples obtained from symptomatic adults, with 74% of samples in agreement.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carrouel et al.\u00a0(May 12, 2021). Performance of Self-Collected Saliva Testing Compared with Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Viruses. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/v13050895\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/v13050895<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was high correlation in the SARS-CoV-2 viral load measurements from paired self-collected pure saliva (SCPS) and nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) from asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients with confirmed COVID-19 (r=0.72; n=31). SCPS performance was more similar to NPS among samples obtained from symptomatic adults, with 74% of samples in agreement. Carrouel et al.\u00a0(May 12, 2021)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/03\/performance-of-self-collected-saliva-testing-compared-with-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}