{"id":9652,"date":"2021-05-07T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:03:55","slug":"performance-of-unobserved-self-collected-nasal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-pcr-utilizing-a-remote-specimen-collection-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/performance-of-unobserved-self-collected-nasal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-pcr-utilizing-a-remote-specimen-collection-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of Unobserved Self-Collected Nasal Swabs for Detection\u00a0 of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR Utilizing a Remote Specimen Collection Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A large, retrospective study (N=47,000) comparing unobserved self-collected anterior nasal swabs\u00a0 and healthcare provider-collected nasopharyngeal swabs found that cycle threshold values for\u00a0 detection of human RNase P (RP), an indicator of sample adequacy for RT-PCR testing, were not\u00a0 significantly different. However, cycle thresholds for detection of SARS-CoV-2 were significantly\u00a0 higher for self-collected than provider-collected swabs, particularly among persons with\u00a0 asymptomatic infection. These results suggest that patient self-collection can provide adequate\u00a0 samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing with low risk of false-negative results.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kagan et al. (Apr 1, 2021). Performance of Unobserved Self-Collected Nasal Swabs for Detection\u00a0 of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR Utilizing a Remote Specimen Collection Strategy. Open Forum\u00a0 Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab039\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab039<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large, retrospective study (N=47,000) comparing unobserved self-collected anterior nasal swabs\u00a0 and healthcare provider-collected nasopharyngeal swabs found that cycle threshold values for\u00a0 detection of human RNase P (RP), an indicator of sample adequacy for RT-PCR testing, were not\u00a0 significantly different. However, cycle thresholds for detection of SARS-CoV-2 were significantly\u00a0 higher for self-collected than provider-collected swabs,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/performance-of-unobserved-self-collected-nasal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-by-rt-pcr-utilizing-a-remote-specimen-collection-strategy\/\">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-9652","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\/9652","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=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9653,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions\/9653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}