{"id":8832,"date":"2021-04-07T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:01:25","slug":"sars-cov-2-is-detectable-using-sensitive-rna-saliva-testing-days-before-viral-load-reaches-detection-range-of-low-sensitivity-nasal-swab-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/sars-cov-2-is-detectable-using-sensitive-rna-saliva-testing-days-before-viral-load-reaches-detection-range-of-low-sensitivity-nasal-swab-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Is Detectable Using Sensitive RNA Saliva Testing Days before Viral Load Reaches Detection Range of Low-Sensitivity Nasal Swab Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A case-control study that collected twice-daily self-collected samples from household contacts of individuals recently diagnosed with a SARS-CoV-2 infection found that SARS-CoV-2 RNA was first detectable in saliva samples and subsequently detectable in samples from nasal swabs. The study found that high-sensitivity tests that use saliva can detect SARS-CoV-2 infection 1.5 to 4.5 days before than low-sensitivity tests that use nasal swabs. While early in the infection low-sensitivity tests that use nasal swabs miss SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals with very high and potentially infectious viral loads in saliva.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Savela et al.\u00a0(Apr 7, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Is Detectable Using Sensitive RNA Saliva Testing Days before Viral Load Reaches Detection Range of Low-Sensitivity Nasal Swab Tests. Pre-print downloaded Apr 7 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.02.21254771\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.02.21254771<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A case-control study that collected twice-daily self-collected samples from household contacts of individuals recently diagnosed with a SARS-CoV-2 infection found that SARS-CoV-2 RNA was first detectable in saliva samples and subsequently detectable in samples from nasal swabs. The study found that high-sensitivity tests that use saliva can detect SARS-CoV-2 infection 1.5 to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/sars-cov-2-is-detectable-using-sensitive-rna-saliva-testing-days-before-viral-load-reaches-detection-range-of-low-sensitivity-nasal-swab-tests\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8832","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\/8832","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=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}