{"id":3355,"date":"2021-01-21T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2021-01-22T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:24:23","slug":"self-collection-of-saliva-specimens-as-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-qpcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/self-collection-of-saliva-specimens-as-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-qpcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Collection of Saliva Specimens as a Suitable Alternative to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-QPCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison of paired nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) and saliva samples from 674 patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection show that compared to NPS, saliva has a sensitivity of 52% and specificity of 92%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Saliva sensitivity and specificity increased to 92% and 99%, respectively, when the cycle threshold (Ct) was \u2264 30. Ct values were significantly higher in saliva.<\/p>\n<p><i>Trobajo-Sanmart\u00edn et al. (Jan 15, 2021). Self-Collection of Saliva Specimens as a Suitable Alternative to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-QPCR. Journal of Clinical Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm10020299\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm10020299<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison of paired nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) and saliva samples from 674 patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection show that compared to NPS, saliva has a sensitivity of 52% and specificity of 92%.\u00a0 Saliva sensitivity and specificity increased to 92% and 99%, respectively, when the cycle threshold (Ct) was \u2264 30. Ct values were significantly higher in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/self-collection-of-saliva-specimens-as-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-qpcr\/\">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-3355","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\/3355","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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}