Comparison of patient-collected and lab technician-collected nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs for detection of COVID-19 by RT-PCR

• Main Authors: Alireza Abdollahi (Author), Abbas Shakoori (Author), Hoda Khoshnevis (Author), Mohammad Arabzadeh (Author), Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi (Author), Esmaeil Mohammadnejad (Author), Dorsa Ghasemi (Author), Maryam Safari Aboksari (Author), Shaban Alizadeh (Author), Vahid Mehrtash (Author), Arezoo Eftekhar-javadi (Author), Masoomeh Safaei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Iranian Society of Pathology, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background & Objective:  A simple approach to prevent close contact in healthcare settings during the COVID-19 outbreak is to train patients to collect their own nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs and deliver them to medical laboratories to have them processed. The aim of our study was to co...