Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing

N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 30;383(5):494-496. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2016321. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Nasopharynx / virology
  • Nose / virology
  • Pandemics
  • Patients
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Specimen Handling / methods*
  • Tongue / virology
  • Turbinates / virology