{"id":7604,"date":"2020-06-17T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:34:32","slug":"a-combined-oropharyngeal-nares-swab-is-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/17\/a-combined-oropharyngeal-nares-swab-is-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Combined Oropharyngeal\/Nares Swab Is a Suitable Alternative to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paired oropharyngeal\/nares<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(OP\/Na)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and nasopharyngeal<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(NP)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0samples\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were collected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from 190 individuals with suspected COVID-19, of whom 36 were positive by at least one molecular method. There was high concordance of results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between OP\/Na and NP samples, with the greatest discordance observed in those individuals with low viral concentrations.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">LeBlanc et al. (July 2020). A Combined Oropharyngeal\/Nares Swab Is a Suitable Alternative to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Clinical Virology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104442\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104442<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paired oropharyngeal\/nares\u00a0(OP\/Na)\u00a0and nasopharyngeal\u00a0(NP)\u00a0samples\u00a0were collected\u00a0from 190 individuals with suspected COVID-19, of whom 36 were positive by at least one molecular method. There was high concordance of results\u00a0between OP\/Na and NP samples, with the greatest discordance observed in those individuals with low viral concentrations.\u00a0\u00a0 LeBlanc et al. (July 2020). A Combined Oropharyngeal\/Nares Swab Is a Suitable Alternative&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/17\/a-combined-oropharyngeal-nares-swab-is-a-suitable-alternative-to-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-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-7604","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\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}