Screening for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR: Saliva or nasopharyngeal swab? Rapid review and meta-analysis

Saliva as an Alternate Specimen Source for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Symptomatic Patients Using Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Clare McCormick-Baw et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Saliva as a non-invasive specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Eloise Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Saliva is a reliable tool to detect SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Lorenzo Azzi et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19

(2020) Xi He et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility

(2020) Melissa M. Arons et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing

(2020) Luca Ferretti et al.   SCIENCE

Non-invasive saliva specimens for the diagnosis of COVID-19: caution in mild outpatient cohorts with low prevalence

(2020) Keira Skolimowska et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Clinical evaluation of self-collected saliva by RT-qPCR, direct RT-qPCR, RT-LAMP, and a rapid antigen test to diagnose COVID-19

(2020) Mayu Nagura-Ikeda et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Saliva sampling and its direct lysis, an excellent option to increase the number of SARS CoV2 diagnostic tests in settings with supply shortages

(2020) Joaquín Moreno-Contreras et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Healthcare Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2

(2020) K. E. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 detection in nasopharyngeal swab and saliva

(2020) Sumio Iwasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo’

(2020) Enrico Lavezzo et al.   NATURE

False Negative Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Challenges and Implications

(2020) Steven Woloshin et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Willingness to Seek Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2 With Home, Drive-through, and Clinic-Based Specimen Collection Locations

(2020) Aaron J Siegler et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

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

(2020) László Márk Czumbel et al.   Frontiers in Medicine

Saliva is a reliable, non-invasive specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection

(2020) Sara Nunes Vaz et al.   Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in saliva and characterization of oral symptoms in COVID‐19 patients

(2020) Lili Chen et al.   CELL PROLIFERATION

A Direct Comparison of Enhanced Saliva to Nasopharyngeal Swab for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Symptomatic Patients

(2020) Gary W. Procop et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Accuracy and stability of saliva as a sample for reverse transcription PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Yoshifumi Uwamino et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Saliva sampling for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infections in symptomatic patients and asymptomatic carriers

(2020) Marion Migueres et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Challenges in use of saliva for detection of SARS CoV-2 RNA in symptomatic outpatients

(2020) Marie L. Landry et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva from infected patients

(2020) Jialou Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Comparative evaluation of nasopharyngeal swab and saliva specimens for the molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Japanese patients with COVID-19

(2020) Daisuke Sakanashi et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Environmental and Aerosolized Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Among Hospitalized Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients

(2020) Raquel A Binder et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment

(2020) Michael J. Mina et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Comparison of saliva and oro-nasopharyngeal swab sample in the molecular diagnosis of COVID-19

(2020) Ertuğrul Güçlü et al.   Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira

Pooled saliva samples for COVID-19 surveillance programme

(2020) Andrew Fogarty et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Saliva as an Alternative Specimen for Molecular COVID-19 Testing in Community Settings and Population-Based Screening

(2020) Abiola Senok et al.   Infection and Drug Resistance

Sensitivity of midturbinate versus nasopharyngeal swabs for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

(2020) Alainna J. Jamal et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Rapid Response to an Outbreak in Qingdao, China

(2020) Yuhan Xing et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Saliva as Compared to Nasopharyngeal Swabs in Outpatients

(2020) Christopher Kandel et al.   Viruses-Basel

Performance of at-home self-collected saliva and nasal-oropharyngeal swabs in the surveillance of COVID-19

(2020) Paulo H. Braz-Silva et al.   Journal of Oral Microbiology

Seriously misleading results using inverse of Freeman‐Tukey double arcsine transformation in meta‐analysis of single proportions

(2019) Guido Schwarzer et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

Random effects meta-analysis of event outcome in the framework of the generalized linear mixed model with applications in sparse data

(2010) Theo Stijnen et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE