Diagnostic accuracy of saliva as a specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR

• Main Authors: Megha Gupta (Author), Parul Sinha (Author), Sandeep Gupta (Author), Dinesh K Jain (Author), Saroj Hooja (Author), Nitya Vyas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Context: COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging pandemic that is rapidly spreading with more than 114 million confirmed cases and 2.5 million deaths by far. Nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) in VTM has been used as the gold standard respiratory specime...