{"id":6202,"date":"2020-04-22T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:41:38","slug":"saliva-as-a-non-invasive-specimen-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/22\/saliva-as-a-non-invasive-specimen-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliva as a non-invasive specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams et al investigated the feasibility and utility of saliva as a non-invasive diagnostic specimen for COVID-19 screening in a clinic in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0 Overall 84.6% of the positive RT PCR patients had SARS-CoV-2 detected in their saliva, while 2% of PCR-negative patients were positive. They argue that use of saliva reduces risk to healthcare workers, does not require specialized consumables, causes less patient discomfort, and may be a useful sample for self-collection. They conclude that saliva could be a suitable alternative first-line screening test in several environments including low resource settings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams et al. (April 21, 2020). Saliva as a non-invasive specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0 Clin Microbiol. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.asm.org\/content\/early\/2020\/04\/17\/JCM.00776-20\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jcm.asm.org\/content\/early\/2020\/04\/17\/JCM.00776-20<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams et al investigated the feasibility and utility of saliva as a non-invasive diagnostic specimen for COVID-19 screening in a clinic in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0 Overall 84.6% of the positive RT PCR patients had SARS-CoV-2 detected in their saliva, while 2% of PCR-negative patients were positive. They argue that use of saliva reduces risk to healthcare&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/22\/saliva-as-a-non-invasive-specimen-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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-6202","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\/6202","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=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}