Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2021Vol. 72pp. -
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aj2021clinicalsensitivity
Abstract
We enrolled 91 consecutive inpatients with COVID-19 at 6 hospitals in Toronto, Canada, and tested 1 nasopharyngeal swab/saliva sample pair from each patient using real-time RT-PCR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Sensitivity was 89% for nasopharyngeal swabs and 72% for saliva (P …