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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Dis Poverty
. 2020 Jul 22;9(1):100.
doi: 10.1186/s40249-020-00728-w.
Saliva as a diagnostic specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in suspected patients: a scoping review
Omid Fakheran[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mandana Dehghannejad[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abbasali Khademi[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Background: From the begging months of 2020 a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, also called 2019-nCoV) caused a devastating global outbreak. At present, the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is made through a nasopharyngeal swab based on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. However, some recent studies suggested the possible role of oral fluids and saliva in the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The purpose of this scoping review is evaluating the available evidence regarding the efficacy of saliva as a diagnostic specimen in COVID-19 patients.
Methods: A systematic literature review of six databases (PubMed, Scopus, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials [CENTRAL], Science Direct, Web of Science and Google scholar) was carried out without any restrictions on date of publication to identify the reliability of saliva as a diagnostic specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in suspected patients.
Results: Nine eligible articles were included in this review based on our described method. All the included studies are based on clinical surveys among patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most of studies included in this review, reported that there is no statistically significant difference between nasopharyngeal or sputum specimens and saliva samples regarding viral load.
Conclusions: Despite limitations of this study, the findings of this review suggest that the use of self-collected saliva as a non-invasive specimen has proper accuracy and reliability regarding detection of SARS-CoV-2 based on RT-PCR technique.
Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; PCR; Review; SARS-CoV-2; Saliva.
. 2020 Jul 22;9(1):100.
doi: 10.1186/s40249-020-00728-w.
Saliva as a diagnostic specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in suspected patients: a scoping review
Omid Fakheran[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mandana Dehghannejad[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abbasali Khademi[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32698862
- DOI: 10.1186/s40249-020-00728-w
Abstract
Background: From the begging months of 2020 a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, also called 2019-nCoV) caused a devastating global outbreak. At present, the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is made through a nasopharyngeal swab based on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. However, some recent studies suggested the possible role of oral fluids and saliva in the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The purpose of this scoping review is evaluating the available evidence regarding the efficacy of saliva as a diagnostic specimen in COVID-19 patients.
Methods: A systematic literature review of six databases (PubMed, Scopus, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials [CENTRAL], Science Direct, Web of Science and Google scholar) was carried out without any restrictions on date of publication to identify the reliability of saliva as a diagnostic specimen for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in suspected patients.
Results: Nine eligible articles were included in this review based on our described method. All the included studies are based on clinical surveys among patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most of studies included in this review, reported that there is no statistically significant difference between nasopharyngeal or sputum specimens and saliva samples regarding viral load.
Conclusions: Despite limitations of this study, the findings of this review suggest that the use of self-collected saliva as a non-invasive specimen has proper accuracy and reliability regarding detection of SARS-CoV-2 based on RT-PCR technique.
Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; PCR; Review; SARS-CoV-2; Saliva.