Self-Collected Oral Fluid and Nasal Swabs Demonstrate Comparable Sensitivity to Clinician Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Detection. (19th October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kojima, N; Turner, F; Slepnev, V; Bacelar, A; Deming, L; Kodeboyina, S; Klausner, J D
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 73:Number 9(2021)
• Page Start: e3106
• Page End: e3109
• Publication Date: 2020-10-19
• Subjects: COVID19 -- SARS-CoV-2 -- oral -- nasal -- pharyngeal; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1589
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: We compared self-collected oral fluid swab specimens with and without clinician supervision, clinician-supervised self-collected anterior nasal swab specimens, and clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swab specimens for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Supervised oral fluid and nasal swab specimens performed similarly to clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swab specimens. No sample type could detect SARS-CoV-2 infections amongst all positive participants.