Self-collected mid-nasal swabs and saliva specimens, compared with nasopharyngeal swabs, for SARS-CoV-2 detection in mild COVID-19 patients

Andrea Alemany; Pere Millat-Martinez; Dan Ouchi; Marc Corbacho-Monné; Antoni E Bordoy; Cristina Esteban; Águeda Hernández; Cristina Casañ; Victoria Gonzalez; Gèlia Costes; Mar Capdevila-Jáuregui; Pamela Torrano-Soler; Alba San José; Jordi Ara; Núria Prat; Bonaventura Clotet; Quique Bassat; Montserrat Gimenez; Ignacio Blanco; Bàrbara Baro; Oriol Mitjà

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2021.09.012

Self-collected mid-nasal swabs and saliva specimens, compared with nasopharyngeal swabs, for SARS-CoV-2 detection in mild COVID-19 patients

J Infect. 2021 Dec;83(6):709-737. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.09.012. Epub 2021 Sep 16.

Authors

Andrea Alemany¹, Pere Millat-Martinez², Dan Ouchi³, Marc Corbacho-Monné³, Antoni E Bordoy⁴, Cristina Esteban⁴, Águeda Hernández⁴, Cristina Casañ⁴, Victoria Gonzalez⁴, Gèlia Costes³, Mar Capdevila-Jáuregui³, Pamela Torrano-Soler³, Alba San José³, Jordi Ara⁵, Núria Prat⁶, Bonaventura Clotet⁷, Quique Bassat⁸, Montserrat Gimenez⁴, Ignacio Blanco⁵, Bàrbara Baro⁹, Oriol Mitjà¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation, Badalona, Spain; Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Rosselló, 132, Badalona 08036, Spain.
² ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation, Badalona, Spain.
⁴ Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Rosselló, 132, Badalona 08036, Spain.
⁵ Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Rosselló, 132, Badalona 08036, Spain; Gerència Territorial Metropolitana Nord, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Gerència Territorial Metropolitana Nord, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation, Badalona, Spain; Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Rosselló, 132, Badalona 08036, Spain; Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVIC-UCC), Vic, Spain.
⁸ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique; ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain; Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain; Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
⁹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: barbara.baro@isglobal.org.
¹⁰ Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation, Badalona, Spain; Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Rosselló, 132, Badalona 08036, Spain; Lihir Medical Centre, International SOS Clinic, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea.

No abstract available

Keywords: Nasal; Nasopharyngeal swab; SARS-CoV-2; Saliva; Screening; Viral load.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Humans
Nasopharynx
RNA, Viral
SARS-CoV-2*
Saliva
Specimen Handling

Substances

RNA, Viral