{"id":5214,"date":"2021-02-26T21:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:18:55","slug":"the-effects-of-dry-swab-incubation-on-sars-cov-2-molecular-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/the-effects-of-dry-swab-incubation-on-sars-cov-2-molecular-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of \u201cDry Swab\u201d Incubation on SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Parikh et al. suggest that \u201cdry swabs\u201d (which do not use transport medium) may be accurate for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics. Flocked swabs were inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 and then incubated in either the typical medium or a dry, sterile conical tube. All dry swabs tested at days 1, 2, and 7 provided results that were within two cycle thresholds (Cts) of the average Ct values for swabs hydrated in the same media and tested on day 0. Not using transport media may alleviate supply shortfalls.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Parikh et al. (Feb 25, 2021). The Effects of \u201cDry Swab\u201d Incubation on SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jalm\/jfab010\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jalm\/jfab010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parikh et al. suggest that \u201cdry swabs\u201d (which do not use transport medium) may be accurate for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics. Flocked swabs were inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 and then incubated in either the typical medium or a dry, sterile conical tube. All dry swabs tested at days 1, 2, and 7 provided results that were within two&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/the-effects-of-dry-swab-incubation-on-sars-cov-2-molecular-testing\/\">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-5214","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\/5214","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=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}