Saliva as a Candidate for COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing: A Meta-Analysis

Saliva as a Candidate for COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing: A Meta-Analysis

Background: COVID-19 is a serious and potentially deadly disease. Early diagnosis of infected individuals will play an important role in stopping its further escalation. The present gold standard for sampling is the nasopharyngeal swab method. However, several recent papers suggested that saliva-bas...

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Main Authors: László Márk Czumbel, Szabolcs Kiss, Nelli Farkas, Iván Mandel, Anita Hegyi, Ákos Nagy, Zsolt Lohinai, Zsolt Szakács, Péter Hegyi, Martin C. Steward, Gábor Varga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
diagnostic tests
saliva
systematic review
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2020.00465/full

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