Effects of Patient Characteristics on Diagnostic Performance of Self-Collected Samples for SARS-CoV-2 Testing.
Smith-Jeffcoat SE, Koh M, Hoffman A, Rebolledo PA, Schechter MC, Miller HK, Sleweon S, Rossetti R, Kasinathan V, Shragai T, O'Laughlin K, Espinosa CC, Khalil GM, Adeyemo AO, Moorman A, Bauman BL, Joseph K, O'Hegarty M, Kamal N, Atallah H, Moore BL, Bohannon CD, Bankamp B, Hartloge C, Bowen MD, Paulick A, Gargis AS, Elkins C, Stewart RJ, da Silva J, Biedron C, Tate JE, Wang YF, Kirking HL; CDC COVID-19 Response Team.
Smith-Jeffcoat SE, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021;27(8):2081-2089. doi: 10.3201/eid2708.210667.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021.
PMID: 34286681
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We evaluated the performance of self-collected anterior nasal swab (ANS) and saliva samples compared with healthcare worker-collected nasopharyngeal swab specimens used to test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). ...Compared with nasopharyngea …
We evaluated the performance of self-collected anterior nasal swab (ANS) and saliva samples compared with healthcare worker-collected …