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The reliability of saliva for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients: Insights on the diagnostic performance and utility for COVID-19 screening

Current literature has focused on testing saliva in symptomatic patients, and little information is available regarding saliva performance in asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We compared paired saliva and nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) collected from 3...

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Autores principales: Alkhateeb, Khaled J., Cahill, Meredith N., Ross, Adam S., Arnold, Forest W., Snyder, James W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8180088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34284319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115450