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- Glenn Patriquin, Ian Davis, Charles Heinstein, Jimmy MacDonald, Todd F Hatchette, and Jason J LeBlanc.
- Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Electronic address: glenn.patriquin@nshealth.ca.
- J. Virol. Methods. 2020 Nov 1; 285: 113948.
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs and universal transport media. This study evaluated a combined oropharynx/nares (OP/Na) sample collection using two readily-available non-flocked swabs, transported in phosphate-buffered saline, and demonstrates equivalent performance in SARS-CoV-2 detection compared to a previously-validated OP/Na collection kit.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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