Article
The Use of Saliva as a Diagnostic Specimen for SARS CoV-2 Molecular Diagnostic Testing for Pediatric Patients
2020-11-13
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Children are an important population to test for COVID-19 infection, particularly because they may shed the virus without displaying symptoms. Testing children for COVID-19 via sensitive molecular methods is important, although collecting nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens can be challenging. A less invasive mode of specimen collection that yields test results comparable to those f...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a514cee6-89b9-56cb-b03e-9310beba46ff
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.11.20223800
