{"id":8342,"date":"2020-07-20T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:33:26","slug":"self-collected-anterior-nasal-and-saliva-specimens-versus-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-molecular-detection-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/20\/self-collected-anterior-nasal-and-saliva-specimens-versus-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-molecular-detection-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Healthcare Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Hanson\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">et al. compared healthcare worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) to self-collected anterior nasal swabs (ANS) and saliva for diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 infection in adults accessing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0drive through testing (n=268). The positive percent agreement between NPS and ANS or saliva was 86.3% and 93.8%, respectively. Negative percent agreement was 99.6% for NPS vs. ANS and 97.8% for NPS vs. saliva. All participants had\u00a0symptoms suggestive\u00a0of COVID-19 infection.<\/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\">Hanson et al. (July 19, 2020). Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Healthcare Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded July 20 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.17.20155754\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.17.20155754<\/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>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Hanson\u00a0et al. compared healthcare worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) to self-collected anterior nasal swabs (ANS) and saliva for diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 infection in adults accessing\u00a0drive through testing (n=268). The positive percent agreement between NPS and ANS or saliva was 86.3% and 93.8%, respectively. Negative percent agreement was 99.6% for NPS vs. ANS and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/20\/self-collected-anterior-nasal-and-saliva-specimens-versus-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-the-molecular-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-8342","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\/8342","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=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}