{"id":951,"date":"2020-09-17T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=951"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:13:10","slug":"self-collected-saline-gargle-samples-as-an-alternative-to-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-covid-19-diagnosis-in-outpatients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/self-collected-saline-gargle-samples-as-an-alternative-to-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-covid-19-diagnosis-in-outpatients\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Collected Saline Gargle Samples as an Alternative to Healthcare Worker Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for COVID-19 Diagnosis in Outpatients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Self-collected saline mouth rinse\/gargle samples and saliva samples had a sensitivity of 98% (39\/40) and 79% (26\/33), respectively, compared to healthcare worker (HCW)-collected nasopharyngeal swab samples among 40 people with SARS-CoV-2. Both types of self-collected samples showed stable viral RNA detection after 2 days of storage at room temperature and demonstrated higher user acceptability ratings than HCW-collected NP swabs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Goldfarb et al. (Sept 14, 2020). Self-Collected Saline Gargle Samples as an Alternative to Healthcare Worker Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for COVID-19 Diagnosis in Outpatients. Pre-print downloaded Sept 18 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.13.20188334\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.13.20188334<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Self-collected saline mouth rinse\/gargle samples and saliva samples had a sensitivity of 98% (39\/40) and 79% (26\/33), respectively, compared to healthcare worker (HCW)-collected nasopharyngeal swab samples among 40 people with SARS-CoV-2. Both types of self-collected samples showed stable viral RNA detection after 2 days of storage at room temperature and demonstrated&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/self-collected-saline-gargle-samples-as-an-alternative-to-healthcare-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-covid-19-diagnosis-in-outpatients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-951","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\/951","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}