{"id":8923,"date":"2020-08-10T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:03:22","slug":"comparing-nasopharyngeal-swab-and-early-morning-saliva-for-the-identification-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/comparing-nasopharyngeal-swab-and-early-morning-saliva-for-the-identification-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Nasopharyngeal Swab and Early Morning Saliva for the Identification of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 217 asymptomatic adult males who had tested positive for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and had\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">subsequently\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">been isolat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at a quarantine center for 8 to 10 days, 160 (74%) tested positive again based on saliva, nasopharyngeal swab, or both. The detection rate for SARS-CoV-2 was higher in saliva compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nasopharyngeal swab<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0testing (93% vs. 5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%). Concordance between the two tests was 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rao et al. (Aug 6, 2020). Comparing Nasopharyngeal Swab and Early Morning Saliva for the Identification of SARS-CoV-2. Clinical Infectious Diseases.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1156\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1156<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Among 217 asymptomatic adult males who had tested positive for\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0and had\u00a0subsequently\u00a0been isolated\u00a0at a quarantine center for 8 to 10 days, 160 (74%) tested positive again based on saliva, nasopharyngeal swab, or both. The detection rate for SARS-CoV-2 was higher in saliva compared to\u00a0nasopharyngeal swab\u00a0testing (93% vs. 53%). Concordance between the two tests was 46%.\u00a0 Rao&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/comparing-nasopharyngeal-swab-and-early-morning-saliva-for-the-identification-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-8923","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\/8923","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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}