{"id":3035,"date":"2021-01-05T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2021-01-06T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:03:11","slug":"performance-of-at-home-self-collected-saliva-and-nasal-oropharyngeal-swabs-in-the-surveillance-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/05\/performance-of-at-home-self-collected-saliva-and-nasal-oropharyngeal-swabs-in-the-surveillance-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of At-Home Self-Collected Saliva and Nasal-Oropharyngeal Swabs in the Surveillance of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study assessing the performance of at-home self-collected saliva and nasal-oropharyngeal (NOP) swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing (RT-PCR) among patients who met the criteria for suspected COVID-19 identified 70 out of 201 patients with positive samples from saliva, NOP, or both swabs. 37\/70 (53%) were positive in both swabs, 18\/70 (26%) were positive in saliva swabs only, and 21\/70 were positive in NOP swabs only.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Braz-Silva et al. (Jan 1, 2021). Performance of At-Home Self-Collected Saliva and Nasal-Oropharyngeal Swabs in the Surveillance of COVID-19. Journal of Oral Microbiology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20002297.2020.1858002\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20002297.2020.1858002<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study assessing the performance of at-home self-collected saliva and nasal-oropharyngeal (NOP) swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing (RT-PCR) among patients who met the criteria for suspected COVID-19 identified 70 out of 201 patients with positive samples from saliva, NOP, or both swabs. 37\/70 (53%) were positive in both swabs, 18\/70 (26%) were positive in saliva swabs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/05\/performance-of-at-home-self-collected-saliva-and-nasal-oropharyngeal-swabs-in-the-surveillance-of-covid-19\/\">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-3035","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\/3035","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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}