1. Two cases of COVID‐19 with positive salivary and negative pharyngeal or respiratory swabs at hospital discharge: A rising concern
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Vittorio Maurino, Fausto Sessa, Giulio Carcano, Andreina Baj, Daniella Dalla Gasperina, and Lorenzo Azzi
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Saliva ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,medicine.medical_specialty ,COVID-19 ,Coronavirus ,SARS-CoV-2 ,nCoV-2019 ,saliva ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Short Communication ,medicine.disease_cause ,SARS‐CoV‐2 ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,COVID‐19 ,Internal medicine ,Hospital discharge ,Medicine ,Humans ,Respiratory system ,General Dentistry ,Patient discharge ,business.industry ,030206 dentistry ,Hospitals ,Patient Discharge ,Otorhinolaryngology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Communicable Disease Control ,nCoV‐2019 ,business - Abstract
We report two cases of COVID‐19 showing negative respiratory swabs but positive salivary samples at the same time. These findings rise the concern about how to manage these patients before hospital discharging, thus avoiding contagion among their family members or a second coronavirus wave once the lockdown is over.
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- 2020
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