{"id":7629,"date":"2020-06-18T15:46:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:47:05","slug":"performance-of-oropharyngeal-swab-testing-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-diagnosis-of-covid-19-united-states-january-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/performance-of-oropharyngeal-swab-testing-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-diagnosis-of-covid-19-united-states-january-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of Oropharyngeal Swab Testing Compared to Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for Diagnosis of COVID-19 \u2014United States, January-February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Investigators analyzed data on 146 nasopharyngeal (NP) and oropharyngeal (OP) swab pairs collected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2264<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a07 days after<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0COPVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0illness onset and tested\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">them\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 and found diagnostic results were 95.2% concordant. Results also show<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that NP swabs could contain more viral material,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">resulting in lower cycle times, suggestion that NP swabs may have higher sensitivity to detect lower viral concentrations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Patel et al. (June 16, 2020). Performance of Oropharyngeal Swab Testing Compared to Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for Diagnosis of COVID-19 \u2014United States, January-February 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa759\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa759<\/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>Investigators analyzed data on 146 nasopharyngeal (NP) and oropharyngeal (OP) swab pairs collected\u00a0\u2264\u00a07 days after\u00a0COPVID-19\u00a0illness onset and tested\u00a0them\u00a0with RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 and found diagnostic results were 95.2% concordant. Results also showed\u00a0that NP swabs could contain more viral material,\u00a0resulting in lower cycle times, suggestion that NP swabs may have higher sensitivity to detect lower viral concentrations.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/performance-of-oropharyngeal-swab-testing-compared-to-nasopharyngeal-swab-testing-for-diagnosis-of-covid-19-united-states-january-february-2020\/\">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-7629","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\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}