1. Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
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Brian Hart, Yuan-Po Tu, Rachel Jennings, Prateek Verma, Gerard A. Cangelosi, Kevin Wehber, Ethan M. Berke, Deneen Vojta, and Rachel C. Wood
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medicine.medical_specialty ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Patients ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Health Personnel ,viruses ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Nose ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Turbinates ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Specimen Handling ,Betacoronavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,Health personnel ,COVID-19 Testing ,0302 clinical medicine ,Tongue ,Nasopharynx ,Correspondence ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Pandemics ,Clinical Laboratory Techniques ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,fungi ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,respiratory system ,body regions ,Emergency medicine ,Coronavirus Infections ,business - Abstract
Patient-Collected Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs to detect SARS-CoV-2 were collected by 530 outpatients before a health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swa...
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- 2020
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