{"id":1755,"date":"2020-10-23T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:45:01","slug":"frequency-and-duration-of-sars-cov-2-shedding-in-oral-fluid-samples-assessed-by-a-modified-commercial-rapid-molecular-assay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/frequency-and-duration-of-sars-cov-2-shedding-in-oral-fluid-samples-assessed-by-a-modified-commercial-rapid-molecular-assay\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequency and Duration of SARS-CoV-2 Shedding in Oral Fluid Samples Assessed by a Modified Commercial Rapid Molecular Assay"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study using the Simplexa COVID-19 Direct assays on oral fluid found that the assay had high sensitivity and specificity to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Simplexa COVID-19 Direct is a rapid assay platform that does not require additional equipment. The assay was used to test oral fluids and nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected in parallel from 164 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Parallel testing of the oral and nasopharyngeal samples indicated highly concordant results (\u03ba = 0.83) and high correlation of viral load values. Viral RNA shedding was also observed up to 100 days from symptom onset, with 32% and 29% positivity observed in oral and nasopharyngeal samples, respectively, collected between 60 and 100 days from symptom onset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bordi et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Frequency and Duration of SARS-CoV-2 Shedding in Oral Fluid Samples Assessed by a Modified Commercial Rapid Molecular Assay. Viruses. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/v12101184\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/v12101184<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study using the Simplexa COVID-19 Direct assays on oral fluid found that the assay had high sensitivity and specificity to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Simplexa COVID-19 Direct is a rapid assay platform that does not require additional equipment. The assay was used to test oral fluids and nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected in parallel from 164&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/frequency-and-duration-of-sars-cov-2-shedding-in-oral-fluid-samples-assessed-by-a-modified-commercial-rapid-molecular-assay\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,38],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-transmission","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}