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Effect of throat washings on detection of 2019 novel coronavirus.
Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Apr 09;:
Authors: Guo WL, Jiang Q, Ye F, Li SQ, Hong C, Chen LY, Li SY
Abstract
The 2019 novel coronavirus was detected in the self-collected throat washings. Positive testing rate of throat washing was much higher than that of Nasopharyngeal swabs. Throat washing is a promising candidate for 2019-nCoV screening and monitoring due to its noninvasive and reliability.
PMID: 32271374 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]