{"id":9027,"date":"2020-08-13T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:27:13","slug":"comparison-analysis-of-different-swabs-and-transport-mediums-suitable-for-sars-cov-2-testing-following-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/13\/comparison-analysis-of-different-swabs-and-transport-mediums-suitable-for-sars-cov-2-testing-following-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison Analysis of Different Swabs and Transport Mediums Suitable for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Following Shortages"},"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\">Garnett et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the performance of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0swabs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 4 transport mediums<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0commonly\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">used<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in primary and tertiary health care settings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for their efficacy in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">molecular detection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of SARS-CoV-2. They reported no clinically significant difference in viral yield from different swabs and most transport mediums for the collection and detection of SARS-CoV-2, indicating swab and medium alternatives could be used if supplies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are unavailable<\/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\">Garnett et al. (Aug 8, 2020). Comparison Analysis of Different Swabs and Transport Mediums Suitable for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Following Shortages. Journal of Virological Methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jviromet.2020.113947\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jviromet.2020.113947<\/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>Garnett et al.\u00a0compared\u00a0the performance of\u00a06\u00a0swabs\u00a0and 4 transport mediums\u00a0commonly\u00a0used\u00a0in primary and tertiary health care settings\u00a0for their efficacy in\u00a0molecular detection\u00a0of SARS-CoV-2. They reported no clinically significant difference in viral yield from different swabs and most transport mediums for the collection and detection of SARS-CoV-2, indicating swab and medium alternatives could be used if supplies\u00a0are unavailable.\u00a0 Garnett et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/13\/comparison-analysis-of-different-swabs-and-transport-mediums-suitable-for-sars-cov-2-testing-following-shortages\/\">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-9027","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\/9027","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=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9028,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}