No One Likes a Stick up Their Nose: Making the Case for Saliva-based Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 May 4;72(9):e357-e358. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1314.

Authors

Farhana Ali¹, Daniel A Sweeney²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; nasopharyngeal swab; saliva.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Humans
Nose
SARS-CoV-2*
Saliva