Routine, Cost-Effective SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Testing Using Pooled Saliva Limits Viral Spread on a Residential College Campus.
Vander Schaaf NA, Fund AJ, Munnich BV, Zastrow AL, Fund EE, Senti TL, Lynn AF, Kane JJ, Love JL, Long GJ, Troendle NJ, Sharda DR.
Vander Schaaf NA, et al.
Microbiol Spectr. 2021 Oct 31;9(2):e0108921. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.01089-21. Epub 2021 Oct 13.
Microbiol Spectr. 2021.
PMID: 34643445
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Importantly, saliva testing flagged 83% of semester positives (43,884 tests administered) and was 95.6% concordant with nasopharyngeal diagnostic results (69.0% concordant on the first test when the nucleocapsid gene (N1) cycle threshold (C(T)) value was >30). Moreover, …
Importantly, saliva testing flagged 83% of semester positives (43,884 tests administered) and was 95.6% concordant with nasopharyngeal diagn …