Saliva molecular testing for SARS-CoV-2: simplifying the diagnosis without losing accuracy

Francesca Saluzzo; Paola Mantegani; Valeria Poletti de Chaurand; Federica Cugnata; Patrizia Rovere-Querini; Marta Cilla; Patrizia Paola Erba; Sara Racca; Cristina Tresoldi; Caterina Uberti-Foppa; Clelia Di Serio; Daniela Maria Cirillo

doi:10.1183/13993003.02099-2021

Saliva molecular testing for SARS-CoV-2: simplifying the diagnosis without losing accuracy

Eur Respir J. 2021 Dec 23;58(6):2102099. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02099-2021. Print 2021 Dec.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Disease, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
² CUSSB-University Center for Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
³ IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Laboratorio Microbiologia/Virologia, SMEL, IRCSS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Molecular Hematology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, IRCSS Ospedale San Raffaele and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Disease, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy [email protected].

Abstract

This study demonstrated that the use of point of care technologies on saliva represents a valid and highly specific solution to simplify, speed up and broadly distribute the diagnostic process for the control of the COVID-19 epidemic https://bit.ly/3oh4bds

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

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

Substances

RNA, Viral