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. 2021 Apr;27(4):656-657.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.10.035. Epub 2020 Nov 4.

Saliva collected in universal transport media is an effective, simple and high-volume amenable method to detect SARS-CoV-2

Byron M Berenger  1 , John M Conly  2 , Kevin Fonseca  3 , Jia Hu  4 , Thomas Louie  5 , Angela R Schneider  6 , Takshveer Singh  6 , William Stokes  7 , Linda Ward  8 , Nathan Zelyas  9
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Saliva collected in universal transport media is an effective, simple and high-volume amenable method to detect SARS-CoV-2

Byron M Berenger et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Apr.
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