TY - JOUR AU - Byrne, Rachel AU - Kay, Grant AU - Kontogianni, Konstantina AU - Aljayyoussi, Ghaith AU - Brown, Lottie AU - Collins, Andrea AU - Cuevas, Luis AU - Ferreira, Daniela AU - Fraser, Alice AU - Garrod, Gala AU - Hill, Helen AU - Hughes, Grant AU - Menzies, Stefanie AU - Mitsi, Elena AU - Owen, Sophie AU - Patterson, Edward AU - Williams, Christopher AU - Hyder-Wright, Angela AU - Adams, Emily AU - Cubas-Atienzar, Ana T1 - Saliva Alternative to Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 2769 SN - 1080-6059 AB - PCR of upper respiratory specimens is the diagnostic standard for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. However, saliva sampling is an easy alternative to nasal and throat swabbing. We found similar viral loads in saliva samples and in nasal and throat swab samples from 110 patients with coronavirus disease. KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - COVID-19 KW - RT-qPCR KW - swabs KW - saliva KW - respiratory infections KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - coronavirus disease KW - zoonoses KW - viruses KW - coronavirus KW - diagnosis KW - testing KW - upper respiratory swab samples DO - 10.3201/eid2611.203283 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-3283_article ER - End of Reference