Sensitivity of midturbinate versus nasopharyngeal swabs for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 42(8): 1001-1003, 2021 08.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-977236
ABSTRACT
To compare sensitivity of specimens for COVID-19 diagnosis, we tested 151 nasopharyngeal/midturbinate swab pairs from 117 COVID-19 inpatients using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sensitivity was 94% for nasopharyngeal and 75% for midturbinate swabs (P = .0001). In 88 nasopharyngeal/midturbinate pairs with matched saliva, sensitivity was 86% for nasopharyngeal swabs and 88% for combined midturbinate swabs/saliva.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
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Nursing
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Epidemiology
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Hospitals
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ice.2020.1326
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