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COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study
Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, molecular diagnostics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) have taken center stage in the detection of infected individuals for isolation purposes but also in the mass surveillance as a preventive str...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35614569 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27883 |
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author | Nguyen‐Kim, Hanh Beckmann, Christiane Redondo, Maurice Ziliox, Jérémy Vallet, Virginie Berger‐Sturm, Karin Overbeck, Jan Von Alberi Auber, Lavinia |
author_facet | Nguyen‐Kim, Hanh Beckmann, Christiane Redondo, Maurice Ziliox, Jérémy Vallet, Virginie Berger‐Sturm, Karin Overbeck, Jan Von Alberi Auber, Lavinia |
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description | Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, molecular diagnostics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) have taken center stage in the detection of infected individuals for isolation purposes but also in the mass surveillance as a preventive strategy to contain the virus spread. While nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) have remained the golden standard substrate, salivary diagnostic for SARS‐CoV‐2 has been proposed as an alternative and noninvasive measure in vulnerable individuals. Nevertheless, there is a widespread assumption that salivary reverse‐transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) does not match the quality of testing using NPS and particular care should be taken in respect to food or beverage intake, when sampling saliva. Our study indicates that without any precaution in the selection of 190 patients, nor restriction over the time window of sampling, there is 99% match in the COVID‐19 positivity between NPS and saliva when using RT‐PCR, with a reported Delta in thermal cycles (Cts) values for the viral genes Envelope (E) and Open reading frame 1ab (Orf1ab) between 0 and 2, a 98.7% sensitivity and 100% specificity. This high accuracy is maintained in pooling configurations that can be used for mass‐testing purposes in professional and educational settings. The further advantage to using crude saliva as compared to NPS or mouthwash is that direct methods yield robust results. Overall, our study validates and promotes the use of salivary diagnostic for COVID‐19 eliminating the need of a medical practitioner for the sampling, resolving the unpleasantness of the NPS intervention and empowering the patient to do self‐testing in times of need. |
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spelling | pubmed-93477772022-08-04 COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study Nguyen‐Kim, Hanh Beckmann, Christiane Redondo, Maurice Ziliox, Jérémy Vallet, Virginie Berger‐Sturm, Karin Overbeck, Jan Von Alberi Auber, Lavinia J Med Virol Research Articles Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, molecular diagnostics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) have taken center stage in the detection of infected individuals for isolation purposes but also in the mass surveillance as a preventive strategy to contain the virus spread. While nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) have remained the golden standard substrate, salivary diagnostic for SARS‐CoV‐2 has been proposed as an alternative and noninvasive measure in vulnerable individuals. Nevertheless, there is a widespread assumption that salivary reverse‐transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) does not match the quality of testing using NPS and particular care should be taken in respect to food or beverage intake, when sampling saliva. Our study indicates that without any precaution in the selection of 190 patients, nor restriction over the time window of sampling, there is 99% match in the COVID‐19 positivity between NPS and saliva when using RT‐PCR, with a reported Delta in thermal cycles (Cts) values for the viral genes Envelope (E) and Open reading frame 1ab (Orf1ab) between 0 and 2, a 98.7% sensitivity and 100% specificity. This high accuracy is maintained in pooling configurations that can be used for mass‐testing purposes in professional and educational settings. The further advantage to using crude saliva as compared to NPS or mouthwash is that direct methods yield robust results. Overall, our study validates and promotes the use of salivary diagnostic for COVID‐19 eliminating the need of a medical practitioner for the sampling, resolving the unpleasantness of the NPS intervention and empowering the patient to do self‐testing in times of need. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-02 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9347777/ /pubmed/35614569 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27883 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Medical Virology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Nguyen‐Kim, Hanh Beckmann, Christiane Redondo, Maurice Ziliox, Jérémy Vallet, Virginie Berger‐Sturm, Karin Overbeck, Jan Von Alberi Auber, Lavinia COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title | COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title_full | COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title_fullStr | COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title_short | COVID salivary diagnostics: A comparative technical study |
title_sort | covid salivary diagnostics: a comparative technical study |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35614569 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27883 |
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