Investigating the Sensitivity of Nasal or Throat Swabs: Combination of Both Swabs Increases the Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Tests-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Investigating the Sensitivity of Nasal or Throat Swabs: Combination of Both Swabs Increases the Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Tests

Published:2022-08-31 Issue:4 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Goodall Barbara L.¹,LeBlanc Jason J.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Hatchette Todd F.¹²³⁴,Barrett Lisa¹²³⁴,Patriquin Glenn¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2. Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

3. Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

4. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abstract

This quality project demonstrates that combining the results of nasal and throat swabs or using a combined single swab of the throat and nares resulted in increased detection of SARS-CoV-2 using a rapid antigen test, in an asymptomatic population. Importantly, no false positives were detected, and over 90% of people were willing to perform the combination swab.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.00217-22

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