{"id":1980,"date":"2020-11-04T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:16:24","slug":"sars-cov-2-detection-by-nasal-strips-a-superior-tool-for-surveillance-of-pediatric-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/04\/sars-cov-2-detection-by-nasal-strips-a-superior-tool-for-surveillance-of-pediatric-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Detection by Nasal Strips a Superior Tool for Surveillance of Pediatric Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In pediatric patients, the use of small strips inserted into each nostril was shown to have a sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 100% for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 when compared to pooled nasopharyngeal swab and throat swab samples. Viral loads of SARS-CoV-2 RNA were similar between paired nasal strip samples and nasal swab samples.<\/p>\n<p><i>Chan et al. (Nov 3, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Detection by Nasal Strips a Superior Tool for Surveillance of Pediatric Populations. Pre-print downloaded Nov 4 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.28.20220673\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.28.20220673<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pediatric patients, the use of small strips inserted into each nostril was shown to have a sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 100% for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 when compared to pooled nasopharyngeal swab and throat swab samples. Viral loads of SARS-CoV-2 RNA were similar between paired nasal strip samples and nasal swab samples&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/04\/sars-cov-2-detection-by-nasal-strips-a-superior-tool-for-surveillance-of-pediatric-populations\/\">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":[25,41,75,76,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-children","tag-report","tag-summarize","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}