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A comparison of health care worker-collected foam and polyester nasal swabs in convalescent COVID-19 patients

2020-05-01 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe exponential growth of COVID-19 cases and testing has created supply shortages at various points in the testing workflow. As of April 15, 2020 FDA recommendations only allowed for the use of nasopharyngeal, flocked mid turbinate, or foam nasal swabs, all of which are in very low supply. Polyester swabs are more readily available and mass producible. We compare the performance of polyester and foam swabs stored in different transport media. MethodsBoth polyester and foam nasal swabs...

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