Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019

KE Hanson, AM Caliendo, CA Arias… - Clinical infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
IDSA Disclaimer As of the time of this publication, updates have been made to IDSA's
Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19. For the most updated version of these guidelines …

The sensitivity and costs of testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection with saliva versus nasopharyngeal swabs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ML Bastos, S Perlman-Arrow, D Menzies… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Background: Nasopharyngeal swabs are the primary sampling method used for detection of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but they require a trained …

Engineered LwaCas13a with enhanced collateral activity for nucleic acid detection

J Yang, Y Song, X Deng, JA Vanegas, Z You… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated
protein 13 (Cas13) has been rapidly developed for nucleic-acid-based diagnostics by using …

[HTML][HTML] Saliva viral load is a dynamic unifying correlate of COVID-19 severity and mortality

J Silva, C Lucas, M Sundaram, B Israelow, P Wong… - MedRxiv, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While several clinical and immunological parameters correlate with disease severity and
mortality in SARS-CoV-2 infection, work remains in identifying unifying correlates of …

Pooled saliva specimens for SARS-CoV-2 testing

B Barat, S Das, V De Giorgi… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
We evaluated saliva (SAL) specimens for SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-
PCR) testing by comparison of 459 prospectively paired nasopharyngeal (NP) or …

Screening for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR: Saliva or nasopharyngeal swab? Rapid review and meta-analysis

N Ibrahimi, A Delaunay-Moisan, C Hill, G Le Teuff… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients and screening of populations
for SARS-CoV-2 infection require access to straightforward, low-cost and high-throughput …

Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization associates with impaired adaptive immune responses against SARS-CoV-2

E Mitsi, J Reiné, BC Urban, C Solórzano… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Background Although recent epidemiological data suggest that pneumococci may contribute
to the risk of SARS-CoV-2 disease, cases of coinfection with Streptococcus pneumoniae in …

[HTML][HTML] Stability of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in nonsupplemented saliva

IM Ott, MS Strine, AE Watkins, M Boot… - Emerging infectious …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The expense of saliva collection devices designed to stabilize severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA is prohibitive to mass testing. However, virus RNA in …

Saliva as a possible tool for the SARS-CoV-2 detection: A review

RCM da Silva, LCN Marinho, DN de Araujo Silva… - Travel Medicine and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Salivary tests for the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis have been
suggested as alternative methods for the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal tests. Method …

Comparison of saliva and midturbinate swabs for detection of SARS-CoV-2

J Lai, J German, F Hong, SHS Tai… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Saliva is an attractive sample for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However, contradictory reports
exist concerning the sensitivity of saliva versus nasal swabs. We followed close contacts of …