{"id":6477,"date":"2020-04-30T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:06:28","slug":"cotton-tipped-plastic-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-rt-qpcr-diagnosis-to-prevent-supplies-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/cotton-tipped-plastic-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-rt-qpcr-diagnosis-to-prevent-supplies-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton tipped plastic swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR diagnosis to prevent supplies shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freire-Paspuel et al. validated nasopharyngeal sampling for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis using inexpensive and easily available cotton-tipped plastic swabs with no inhibition effect over PCR reaction instead of plastic synthetic fiber tipped rayon swabs (gold standard by CDC) and found a total agreement among swabs (n=33 positives and n=11 negatives). These results suggest that cotton-tipped swabs could be just as reliable as the rayon swabs, indicating that they can be an option under lack of NP swabs supply.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freire-Paspuel et al. (Apr 29, 2020). Cotton tipped plastic swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR diagnosis to prevent supplies shortage. Pre-print downloaded Apr 30 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.28.20079947\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.28.20079947<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freire-Paspuel et al. validated nasopharyngeal sampling for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis using inexpensive and easily available cotton-tipped plastic swabs with no inhibition effect over PCR reaction instead of plastic synthetic fiber tipped rayon swabs (gold standard by CDC) and found a total agreement among swabs (n=33 positives and n=11 negatives). These results suggest that cotton-tipped swabs could&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/cotton-tipped-plastic-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-rt-qpcr-diagnosis-to-prevent-supplies-shortage\/\">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-6477","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\/6477","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=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}