Utility of nasal swabs for assessing mucosal immune responses towards SARS-CoV-2.
Ericka Kirkpatrick RoubidouxPamela H BriglebKasi VegesanaAisha SouquetteKendall WhittPamela Freidennull nullAmanda GreenPaul Glyndwr ThomasMaureen A McGargillJoshua WolfStacey Schultz-CherryPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
A nasopharyngeal swab can be used to study the intranasal immune response and yields much more information than a simple viral diagnosis.