Publications by authors named "Sofia Anceva-Sami"
To compare sensitivity of specimens for COVID-19 diagnosis, we tested 151 nasopharyngeal/midturbinate swab pairs from 117 COVID-19 inpatients using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sensitivity was 94% for nasopharyngeal and 75% for midturbinate swabs (P = .0001).
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- - A study enrolled 91 COVID-19 patients from 6 hospitals in Toronto to compare testing methods.
- - They tested both nasopharyngeal swabs and saliva samples using RT-PCR to detect the virus.
- - Results showed that nasopharyngeal swabs had a sensitivity of 89%, while saliva had a lower sensitivity of 72%, especially later in the illness (P = .02).