{"id":5855,"date":"2020-04-10T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:19:55","slug":"effect-of-throat-washings-on-detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/effect-of-throat-washings-on-detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of throat washings on detection of 2019 novel coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARS-CoV-2 detection was compared in paired self-collected throat washings and nasopharyngeal swabs from 11 patients.\u00a0 The authors conclude that positive testing rate of throat washing was much higher than that of nasopharyngeal swabs, and that throat washing is a promising candidate for 2019-nCoV screening and monitoring due to its noninvasive nature and reliability.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guo et al. (Apr 9, 2020). Effect of throat washings on detection of 2019 novel coronavirus. Clin Infect Dis. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa416\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa416<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2 detection was compared in paired self-collected throat washings and nasopharyngeal swabs from 11 patients.\u00a0 The authors conclude that positive testing rate of throat washing was much higher than that of nasopharyngeal swabs, and that throat washing is a promising candidate for 2019-nCoV screening and monitoring due to its noninvasive nature and reliability. Guo et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/effect-of-throat-washings-on-detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus\/\">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-5855","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\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}