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SUBMITTER: Ott IM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418742 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ott Isabel M IM Strine Madison S MS Watkins Anne E AE Boot Maikel M Kalinich Chaney C CC Harden Christina A CA Vogels Chantal B F CBF Casanovas-Massana Arnau A Moore Adam J AJ Muenker M Catherine MC Nakahata Maura M Tokuyama Maria M Nelson Allison A Fournier John J Bermejo Santos S Campbell Melissa M Datta Rupak R Dela Cruz Charles S CS Farhadian Shelli F SF Ko Albert I AI Iwasaki Akiko A Grubaugh Nathan D ND Wilen Craig B CB Wyllie Anne L AL
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 20200804
Most currently approved strategies for the collection of saliva for COVID-19 diagnostics require specialized tubes containing buffers promoted for the stabilization of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and virus inactivation. Yet many of these are expensive, in limited supply, and not necessarily validated specifically for viral RNA. While saliva is a promising sample type as it can be reliably self-collected for the sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2, the expense and availability of these collection tubes are proh ...[more]