{"id":1841,"date":"2020-10-28T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:16:46","slug":"saliva-is-a-promising-alternative-specimen-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-and-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/28\/saliva-is-a-promising-alternative-specimen-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-and-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliva Is a Promising Alternative Specimen for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Children and Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> Paired testing between nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) and saliva samples from 300 patients (including both pediatric and adult patients) showed that the concordance of saliva and NPS samples was 91.0% and 94.7%, respectively. The positive percent agreement was 81.4% (79\/97) and 89.7% (87\/97), respectively. The authors suggest that saliva can be an appropriate alternative sample choice to NPS for detection of SARS-CoV-2.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Yee et al. (Oct 27, 2020). Saliva Is a Promising Alternative Specimen for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Children and Adults. Pre-print downloaded Oct 28 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.25.20219055\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.25.20219055<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Paired testing between nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) and saliva samples from 300 patients (including both pediatric and adult patients) showed that the concordance of saliva and NPS samples was 91.0% and 94.7%, respectively. The positive percent agreement was 81.4% (79\/97) and 89.7% (87\/97), respectively. The authors suggest that saliva can be an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/28\/saliva-is-a-promising-alternative-specimen-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-and-adults\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-1841","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\/1841","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}