{"id":529,"date":"2020-08-26T19:44:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-08-31T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T02:45:34","slug":"diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-accuracy-of-nasopharyngeal-swab-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-aspirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-accuracy-of-nasopharyngeal-swab-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-aspirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in Children Accuracy of Nasopharyngeal Swab Compared to Nasopharyngeal Aspirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Comparing the diagnostic performance of nasopharyngeal swab (NS) to nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children (n=300 paired samples), NS was found to have a low sensitivity in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in children when referred to NPA. The authors recommend that in children under 6 years of age, NS should be the preferred test whenever possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Di Pietro et al. (Aug 25, 2020). Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in Children Accuracy of Nasopharyngeal Swab Compared to Nasopharyngeal Aspirate. Pre-print downloaded Aug 26 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.20.20178012\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.20.20178012<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Comparing the diagnostic performance of nasopharyngeal swab (NS) to nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children (n=300 paired samples), NS was found to have a low sensitivity in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in children when referred to NPA. The authors recommend that in children under 6 years of age, NS should&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-in-children-accuracy-of-nasopharyngeal-swab-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-aspirate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}