{"id":4886,"date":"2021-02-23T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T02:29:15","slug":"saliva-for-molecular-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-school-aged-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/23\/saliva-for-molecular-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-school-aged-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliva for Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in School-Aged Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saliva RT-PCR had a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 99% compared to nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) in a study of 485 NPS and saliva sample pairs collected from 476 children presenting for COVID-19 screening in Dubai. Viral detection in at least one specimen type was reported in 18%, with 17% in NPS alone and 16% in saliva alone. Concordance of findings between the NPS and saliva did not differ by age or gender.<\/p>\n<p><i>Al Suwaidi et al.\u00a0(Feb 2021). Saliva for Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in School-Aged Children. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2021.02.009\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmi.2021.02.009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saliva RT-PCR had a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 99% compared to nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) in a study of 485 NPS and saliva sample pairs collected from 476 children presenting for COVID-19 screening in Dubai. Viral detection in at least one specimen type was reported in 18%, with 17% in NPS alone and 16%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/23\/saliva-for-molecular-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-school-aged-children\/\">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-4886","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\/4886","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=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}