{"id":2522,"date":"2020-12-03T07:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:42:25","slug":"pooled-saliva-specimens-for-sars-cov-2-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/pooled-saliva-specimens-for-sars-cov-2-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooled Saliva Specimens for SARS-CoV-2 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A prospective study of pooled saliva specimens for RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 yielded lower sensitivity compared to nasopharyngeal (NP) or mid-turbinate (MT) swabs, but adequate detection in samples with high viral loads. Saliva specimens had 81.8% positive agreement with NP swabs, which rose to 90.0% positive agreement among samples with moderate to high viral load (Ct \u226434) in an analysis comparing 459 paired NP and MT swabs from 449 symptomatic individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barat et al. (Dec 1, 2020). Pooled Saliva Specimens for SARS-CoV-2 Testing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.02486-20\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.02486-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prospective study of pooled saliva specimens for RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 yielded lower sensitivity compared to nasopharyngeal (NP) or mid-turbinate (MT) swabs, but adequate detection in samples with high viral loads. Saliva specimens had 81.8% positive agreement with NP swabs, which rose to 90.0% positive agreement among samples with moderate to high viral load&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/pooled-saliva-specimens-for-sars-cov-2-testing\/\">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],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2522","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\/2522","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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}