id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-352296-rpjehijd Azzi, Lorenzo Two cases of COVID‐19 with positive salivary and negative pharyngeal or respiratory swabs at hospital discharge: A rising concern 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 639 44 62 title: Two cases of COVID‐19 with positive salivary and negative pharyngeal or respiratory swabs at hospital discharge: A rising concern During our research, we found two patients out of 25 subjects (i.e., 8%) affected by COVID-19 with different degrees of severity, who showed positive salivary results on the same days when their pharyngeal or bronchoalveolar swabs proved to be negative . These findings, together with those reported by the F I G U R E 1 The temporal line of the clinical course in the two patients shows how their salivary samples tested positive, while the pharyngeal or bronchoalveolar swabs were negative on the same day (Patient 1 on March 19) or during the interval between two consecutive salivary swabs (Patient 2, March 23-28) Chinese colleagues on sputum, rise the concern about how to manage these patients before hospital discharging. Two cases of COVID-19 with positive salivary and negative pharyngeal or respiratory swabs at hospital discharge: A rising concern ./cache/cord-352296-rpjehijd.txt ./txt/cord-352296-rpjehijd.txt