{"id":5416,"date":"2020-03-24T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:02:14","slug":"temporal-profiles-of-viral-load-in-posterior-oropharyngeal-saliva-samples-and-serum-antibody-responses-during-infection-by-sars-cov-2-an-observational-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/24\/temporal-profiles-of-viral-load-in-posterior-oropharyngeal-saliva-samples-and-serum-antibody-responses-during-infection-by-sars-cov-2-an-observational-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To et al ascertain the serial respiratory viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in posterior oropharyngeal (deep throat) saliva samples from 30 patients with COVID-19 from 2 Hong Kong hospitals, and serum antibody responses in this cohort study.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Posterior oropharyngeal saliva specimens are non-invasive and acceptable to patients and can be used for initial diagnosis and subsequent viral load monitoring of COVID-19. The study provides information on viral kinetics and antibody response in patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To et al. (Mar 23, 2020). Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study. Lancet Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30196-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30196-1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To et al ascertain the serial respiratory viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in posterior oropharyngeal (deep throat) saliva samples from 30 patients with COVID-19 from 2 Hong Kong hospitals, and serum antibody responses in this cohort study.\u00a0 Posterior oropharyngeal saliva specimens are non-invasive and acceptable to patients and can be used for initial diagnosis and subsequent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/24\/temporal-profiles-of-viral-load-in-posterior-oropharyngeal-saliva-samples-and-serum-antibody-responses-during-infection-by-sars-cov-2-an-observational-cohort-study\/\">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-5416","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\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}