{"id":5059,"date":"2020-03-16T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:05:44","slug":"experience-of-different-upper-respiratory-tract-sampling-strategies-for-detection-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/experience-of-different-upper-respiratory-tract-sampling-strategies-for-detection-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience of different upper respiratory tract sampling strategies for detection of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors measure the sensitivity and specificity of throat and lingual swabs for the detection of COVID-19 based on a cohort study of two groups of suspected patients at 2 COVID-19 fixed-point hospitals in Wuhan. The positive rate of throat swabs was higher than lingual swabs; however due to the small sample size the findings should be used with caution.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ye et al. (Mar 6, 2020). Experience of different upper respiratory tract sampling strategies for detection of COVID-19. Journal of Hospital Infection. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.03.012\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.03.012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors measure the sensitivity and specificity of throat and lingual swabs for the detection of COVID-19 based on a cohort study of two groups of suspected patients at 2 COVID-19 fixed-point hospitals in Wuhan. The positive rate of throat swabs was higher than lingual swabs; however due to the small sample size the findings&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/experience-of-different-upper-respiratory-tract-sampling-strategies-for-detection-of-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":[19],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}