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

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Saitama Medical University Hospital, 38 Morohongo, Moroyama-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama 350-0495, Japan.
• ² Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan.
• ³ Department of Infectious Disease and Infection Control, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Saitama Medical University Hospital, 38 Morohongo, Moroyama-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama 350-0495, Japan. Electronic address: t_maeda@saitama-med.ac.jp.