Self-collected oral, nasal and saliva samples yield sensitivity comparable to professionally collected oro-nasopharyngeal swabs in SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis among symptomatic outpatients

INTRODUCTION: Containing COVID-19 requires broad-scale testing. However, sample collection requires qualified personnel and protective equipment and may cause transmission. We assessed the sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2-rtPCR applying three self-sampling techniques as compared to professionally collected...

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Autores principales: Gertler, Maximilian, Krause, Eva, van Loon, Welmoed, Krug, Niklas, Kausch, Franka, Rohardt, Chiara, Rössig, Heike, Michel, Janine, Nitsche, Andreas, Mall, Marcus A., Nikolai, Olga, Hommes, Franziska, Burock, Susen, Lindner, Andreas K., Mockenhaupt, Frank P., Pison, Ulrich, Seybold, Joachim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34302962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.047

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34302962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.047

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