{"id":9497,"date":"2021-04-29T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:01:51","slug":"a-comparison-of-less-invasive-sars-cov-2-diagnostic-specimens-in-nursing-home-residents-arkansas-june-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/a-comparison-of-less-invasive-sars-cov-2-diagnostic-specimens-in-nursing-home-residents-arkansas-june-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comparison of Less Invasive SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Specimens in Nursing Home Residents \u2014 Arkansas, June\u2013August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a comparison study of longitudinally collected samples for SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing among nursing home residents within 15 days of their first positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCRS result (n=17), saliva swabs (SA) and oropharyngeal swabs (OR) were PCR-positive for up to 48 days. Anterior nasal swabs (AN) were only positive for up to 33 days, but had the highest percentage of PCR-positive results (81%, 21\/26) when collected within 10 days. Out of 11 samples that had viable virus by viral culture, 9 were AN samples collected within 19 days and 2 were OP samples collected within 5 days.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gable et al.\u00a0(Apr 28, 2021). A Comparison of Less Invasive SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Specimens in Nursing Home Residents \u2014 Arkansas, June\u2013August 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab310\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab310<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comparison study of longitudinally collected samples for SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing among nursing home residents within 15 days of their first positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCRS result (n=17), saliva swabs (SA) and oropharyngeal swabs (OR) were PCR-positive for up to 48 days. Anterior nasal swabs (AN) were only positive for up to 33 days, but had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/a-comparison-of-less-invasive-sars-cov-2-diagnostic-specimens-in-nursing-home-residents-arkansas-june-august-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":[150,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}