{"id":5653,"date":"2020-04-03T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:24:41","slug":"gargle-lavage-as-a-safe-and-sensitive-alternative-to-swab-samples-to-diagnose-covid-19-a-case-report-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/gargle-lavage-as-a-safe-and-sensitive-alternative-to-swab-samples-to-diagnose-covid-19-a-case-report-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gargle lavage as a safe and sensitive alternative to swab samples to diagnose COVID-19: a case report in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saito et al report a case in which gargle lavage samples yielded positive PCR and oropharyngeal swabs results. Gargle lavages may be a safer and potentially more sensitive alternative to oropharyngeal swabs, as gargle lavage can be done by patients themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saito et al. (Apr 2, 2020). Gargle lavage as a safe and sensitive alternative to swab samples to diagnose COVID-19: a case report in Japan. Clin Infect Dis. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa377\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa377<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saito et al report a case in which gargle lavage samples yielded positive PCR and oropharyngeal swabs results. Gargle lavages may be a safer and potentially more sensitive alternative to oropharyngeal swabs, as gargle lavage can be done by patients themselves.\u00a0 Saito et al. (Apr 2, 2020). Gargle lavage as a safe and sensitive alternative&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/gargle-lavage-as-a-safe-and-sensitive-alternative-to-swab-samples-to-diagnose-covid-19-a-case-report-in-japan\/\">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-5653","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\/5653","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=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}