{"id":6064,"date":"2021-03-08T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:52:10","slug":"diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection-by-rt-pcr-using-specimens-other-than-naso-and-oropharyngeal-swabs-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection-by-rt-pcr-using-specimens-other-than-naso-and-oropharyngeal-swabs-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis of SARS-Cov-2 Infection by RT-PCR Using Specimens Other Than Naso- and Oropharyngeal Swabs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A systematic review and meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing using samples other than naso- or oropharyngeal swabs found that saliva samples had the highest accuracy (92%), with a sensitivity of 84% and specificity of 96%. Deep throat saliva\/posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples had an overall accuracy of 80%, with a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 63%. Samples of interest that could not be sufficiently assessed due to low study numbers included sputum, urine, feces, and tears\/conjunctival specimens; however, the authors suggested assay performance was likely to be lower with these sample types.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Moreira et al.\u00a0(Feb 21, 2021). Diagnosis of SARS-Cov-2 Infection by RT-PCR Using Specimens Other Than Naso- and Oropharyngeal Swabs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/diagnostics11020363\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/diagnostics11020363<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing using samples other than naso- or oropharyngeal swabs found that saliva samples had the highest accuracy (92%), with a sensitivity of 84% and specificity of 96%. Deep throat saliva\/posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples had an overall accuracy of 80%, with a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2-infection-by-rt-pcr-using-specimens-other-than-naso-and-oropharyngeal-swabs-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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-6064","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\/6064","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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}