Salivary detection of COVID-19: clinical performance of oral sponge sampling for SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Jacques BoutrosJonathan BenzaquenCharles Hugo MarquetteMarius IliéMickelina LabakyDidier BenchetritThibaut LavrutSylvie LeroyRichard ChemlaMichel CarlesVirginie TangaCharlotte ManielOlivier BordoneMaryline AllégraVirginie LespinetJulien FayadaJennifer GriffonnetVéronique HofmanPaul Hofman

Published in: ERJ open research (2021)

These results strongly suggest that OS testing is a straightforward, low-cost and high-throughput sampling method that can be used for frequent RT-PCR testing of COVID-19 patients and mass screening of populations.

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