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. 2021 Nov 2;73(9):e3106-e3109.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1589.

Self-Collected Oral Fluid and Nasal Swabs Demonstrate Comparable Sensitivity to Clinician Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Detection

N Kojima  1 , F Turner  2 , V Slepnev  2 , A Bacelar  2 , L Deming  2 , S Kodeboyina  2 , J D Klausner  3
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Self-Collected Oral Fluid and Nasal Swabs Demonstrate Comparable Sensitivity to Clinician Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Detection

N Kojima et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

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.

Keywords: COVID19; SARS-CoV-2; nasal; oral; pharyngeal.

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