Saliva Alternative to Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis

Rachel Byrne; Grant Kay; Nadia Kontogianni; Ghaith Aljayyoussi; Lottie Brown; Andrea Collins; Luis Cuevas; Daniela Ferreira; Tom Fletcher; Alice Fraser; Gala Garrod; Helen Hill; Grant Hughes; Stefanie Menzies; Elena Mitsi; Sophie Owen; Ian Patterson; Stacy Todd; Chris Williams; Angela Hyder-Wright; Emily Adams; Ana I. Cubas-Atienzar

doi:10.3201/eid2611.203283

Saliva Alternative to Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis

Rachel Byrne
, Grant Kay
, Nadia Kontogianni
, Ghaith Aljayyoussi
, Lottie Brown
, Andrea Collins
, Luis Cuevas
, Daniela Ferreira
, Tom Fletcher
, Alice Fraser
, Gala Garrod
, Helen Hill
, Grant Hughes
, Stefanie Menzies
, Elena Mitsi
, Sophie Owen
, Ian Patterson
, Stacy Todd
, Chris Williams
, Angela Hyder-Wright

Emily Adams, Ana I. Cubas-Atienzar

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
National Institute for Health and Care Research
University of Liverpool

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PCR of upper respiratory specimens is the diagnostic standard for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. However, saliva sampling is an easy alternative to nasal and throat swabbing. We found similar viral loads in saliva samples and in nasal and throat swab samples from 110 patients with coronavirus disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2769-2770
Number of pages	2
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	26
Issue number	11
Early online date	11 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2611.203283
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

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Investigating the impact of insecticide exposure and resistance on the vector competence of Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti for arboviruses
Kay, G. (Author), Reimer, L. (Supervisor), Lord, J. (Supervisor), Hughes, G. (Supervisor), Ranson, H. (Supervisor) & Jewell, C. (Supervisor), 2023
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Byrne, R., Kay, G., Kontogianni, N., Aljayyoussi, G., Brown, L., Collins, A., Cuevas, L., Ferreira, D., Fletcher, T., Fraser, A., Garrod, G., Hill, H., Hughes, G., Menzies, S., Mitsi, E., Owen, S., Patterson, I., Todd, S., Williams, C., ... Cubas-Atienzar, A. I. (2020). Saliva Alternative to Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(11), 2769-2770. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2611.203283

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Saliva Alternative to Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis

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Investigating the impact of insecticide exposure and resistance on the vector competence of Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti for arboviruses

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