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Saliva swabs are the preferred sample for Omicron detection

2021-12-24

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The Omicron variant is characterised by more than 50 distinct mutations, the majority of which are located in the spike protein. The implications of these mutations for disease transmission, tissue tropism and diagnostic testing are still to be determined. We evaluated the relative performance of saliva and mid-turbinate swabs as RT-PCR samples for the Delta and Omicron variants. The positive percent agreement (PP...

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Literature Corpus work: c392c75d-f72a-5e40-ba2c-6983a1b501c9
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.22.21268246

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