Standardized Sampling by the Same Nurse Could Improve the Positive Rate and Consistency of the Throat Swabs to Detect COVID-19

Authors :: Guangming Ye
Yirong Li
Shichan Wang
Mengxin Lu
Song Chen
Xinghuan Wang
Yongwen Luo
Yejingpeng Wang
Source :: SSRN Electronic Journal.
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2020.
Abstract: Emerging worldwide pandemic COVID-19 is spreading around the world At present, the diagnosis of COVID-19 mainly depends on qRT-PCR assay of throat swabs Howev

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Sampling (statistics)
medicine.anatomical_structure
stomatognathic system
Consistency (statistics)
Throat
Pandemic
Emergency medicine
medicine
business

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