Assessment of Sensitivity and Specificity of Patient-Collected Lower Nasal Specimens for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2Testing.
case_control · Level III
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 32530469.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12005 and PMC identifier 7292998.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
This prognostic study compares the diagnostic equivalence of patient-collected lower nasal specimens with that of health care worker–collected oropharyngeal specimens for sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing.
Medical subject headings
- Betacoronavirus
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques
- Coronavirus Infections
- Nasopharynx
- Pneumonia, Viral