{"id":740,"date":"2020-09-04T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=740"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:16:30","slug":"a-direct-comparison-of-enhanced-saliva-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-symptomatic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/04\/a-direct-comparison-of-enhanced-saliva-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-symptomatic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"A Direct Comparison of Enhanced Saliva to Nasopharyngeal Swab for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Symptomatic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There was very high agreement in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing results between enhanced saliva specimens (i.e. strong sniff, elicited cough, and a collection of saliva\/secretions) and nasopharyngeal swabs collected from 224 patients suspected of having COVID-19. The positive agreement was 100% and the negative agreement was 99.4%.<\/li>\n<li>Saliva samples had a lower mean viral load compared with nasopharyngeal swabs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Procop et al. (Sept 3, 2020). A Direct Comparison of Enhanced Saliva to Nasopharyngeal Swab for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Symptomatic Patients. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01946-20\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01946-20<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was very high agreement in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing results between enhanced saliva specimens (i.e. strong sniff, elicited cough, and a collection of saliva\/secretions) and nasopharyngeal swabs collected from 224 patients suspected of having COVID-19. The positive agreement was 100% and the negative agreement was 99.4%. Saliva samples had a lower mean viral load compared&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/04\/a-direct-comparison-of-enhanced-saliva-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-in-symptomatic-patients\/\">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-740","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\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}