Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2

L. Wyllie, Anne; Fournier, John; Casanovas‐Massana, Arnau; Campbell, Melissa; Tokuyama, Maria; Vijayakumar, Pavithra; L. Warren, Joshua; Geng, Bertie; Catherine Muenker, M.; J. Moore, Adam; B. F. Vogels, Chantal; E. Petrone, Mary; M. Ott, Isabel; Lu, Peiwen; Venkataraman, Arvind; Lu-Culligan, Alice; Klein, Jon; Earnest, Rebecca; Simonov, Michael; Datta, Rupak; Handoko, Ryan; Naushad, Nida; R. Sewanan, Lorenzo; Valdez, Jordan; B. White, Elizabeth; Lapidus, Sarah; C. Kalinich, Chaney; Jiang, Xiaodong; J. Kim, Daniel; Kudo, Eriko; Linehan, Melissa; Mao, Tianyang; Moriyama, Miyu; Eun Oh, Ji; Park, Annsea; Silva, Julio; Song, Eric; Takahashi, Takehiro; Taura, Manabu; Weizman, Orr-El; Wong, Patrick; Yang, Yexin; Bermejo, Santos; D. Odio, Camila; B. Omer, Saad; S. Dela Cruz, Charles; Farhadian, Shelli; A. Martinello, Richard; Iwasaki, Akiko; D. Grubaugh, Nathan; I. Ko, Albert

doi:10.1056/nejmc2016359

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Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Aug 28, 2020

Authors:

Anne L. Wyllie

John Fournier

Arnau Casanovas‐Massana

Abstract

In this letter, the investigators report that saliva specimens and nasopharyngeal swab specimens had similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both symptomatic and asymptomatic persons.

Subject

Saliva

Asymptomatic

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

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