{"id":611,"date":"2020-08-31T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:20:04","slug":"saliva-or-nasopharyngeal-swab-specimens-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/31\/saliva-or-nasopharyngeal-swab-specimens-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wyllie et al. found that self-collected saliva specimens have similar sensitivity to clinician-collected nasopharyngeal specimens for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 during hospitalization. At 1 to 5 days after diagnosis by RT-PCR testing on nasopharyngeal swabs (n=70), 81% of the saliva samples were positive, compared to 71% of the nasopharyngeal swab samples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Wyllie et al. (Aug 28, 2020). Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2. New England Journal of Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMc2016359\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMc2016359<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyllie et al. found that self-collected saliva specimens have similar sensitivity to clinician-collected nasopharyngeal specimens for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 during hospitalization. At 1 to 5 days after diagnosis by RT-PCR testing on nasopharyngeal swabs (n=70), 81% of the saliva samples were positive, compared to 71% of the nasopharyngeal swab samples. Wyllie et al. (Aug&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/31\/saliva-or-nasopharyngeal-swab-specimens-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-611","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\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}