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Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
- Source :
- New England Journal of Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Massachusetts Medical Society, 2020.
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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...
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15334406 and 00284793
- Volume :
- 383
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....91ea51902fd8caf98d62e29e29e81354
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2016321