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Comment
. 2021 Jul;83(1):119-145.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.04.007. Epub 2021 Apr 16.

Concerns about the clinical usefulness of saliva specimens for the diagnosis of COVID-19

Masahiro Kodana  1 , Yutaro Kitagawa  1 , Rina Takahashi  1 , Masaru Matsuoka  1 , Naoki Fushimi  2 , Jun Sakai  3 , Noriomi Ishibashi  3 , Kazuo Imai  3 , Shinichi Takeuchi  1 , Norihito Tarumoto  3 , Shigefumi Maesaki  3 , Tetsuo Ikezono  2 , Takuya Maeda  4
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Concerns about the clinical usefulness of saliva specimens for the diagnosis of COVID-19

Masahiro Kodana et al. J Infect. 2021 Jul.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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