{"id":4586,"date":"2020-02-24T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:09:11","slug":"comparison-of-throat-swabs-and-sputum-specimens-for-viral-nucleic-acid-detection-in-52-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infected-pneumonia-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/comparison-of-throat-swabs-and-sputum-specimens-for-viral-nucleic-acid-detection-in-52-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infected-pneumonia-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of throat swabs and sputum specimens for viral nucleic acid detection in 52 cases of novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) infected pneumonia (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sputum specimens appear to be more sensitive than throat swabs in detecting COVID-19, though authors do not provide estimates of positive predictive value.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lin et al. (Feb 23, 2020). Comparison of throat swabs and sputum specimens for viral nucleic acid detection in 52 cases of novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) infected pneumonia (COVID-19). Pre-print downloaded Feb 23 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.21.20026187\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.21.20026187<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sputum specimens appear to be more sensitive than throat swabs in detecting COVID-19, though authors do not provide estimates of positive predictive value.\u00a0 Lin et al. (Feb 23, 2020). Comparison of throat swabs and sputum specimens for viral nucleic acid detection in 52 cases of novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) infected pneumonia (COVID-19). Pre-print downloaded Feb 23&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/comparison-of-throat-swabs-and-sputum-specimens-for-viral-nucleic-acid-detection-in-52-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infected-pneumonia-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}