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cord-296054-s8pibdeg	Hanson, K. E.	Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Health Care Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2	2020-10-21		.txt	text/plain	2452	125	51	title: Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Health Care Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2 We prospectively compared health care worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) to self-collected anterior nasal swabs (ANS) and straight saliva for the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 354 patients. More cases were detected by the use of NPS (n = 80) and saliva (n = 81) than by the use of ANS (n = 70), but no single specimen type detected all severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. Larger studies that compare the performance of patient self-collected ANS and straight saliva to health care worker-collected NPS for SARS-CoV-2 detection are needed. Therefore, we performed a prospective comparative study to evaluate the performance of patient self-collected ANS and saliva versus that of health care providercollected NPS for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing. This study represents one of the largest prospective comparisons of specimen types to date and demonstrates excellent agreement between provider-collected NPS and patient self-collected saliva and ANS.	./cache/cord-296054-s8pibdeg.txt	./txt/cord-296054-s8pibdeg.txt