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- Title
How home anterior self-collected nasal swab simplifies SARS-CoV-2 testing: new surveillance horizons in public health and beyond.
- Authors
Ricci, Silvia; Lodi, Lorenzo; Citera, Francesco; Nieddu, Francesco; Moriondo, Maria; Guarnieri, Valentina; Giovannini, Mattia; Indolfi, Giuseppe; Resti, Massimo; Zanobini, Alberto; Azzari, Chiara
- Abstract
The sample collection procedure for SARS-CoV-2 has a strong impact on diagnostic capability, contact tracing approach, ultimately affecting the infection containment performance. This study demonstrates that self-collected nasal-swab has shown to be a valid and well tolerated procedure to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in a healthcare system. More significantly, no performance adequacy difference was detected in self-administered swabs between healthcare worker (HCW) and non-HCW which allows to speculate that this procedure could be successfully extended to the entire population for mass screening.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health surveillance; SARS-CoV-2; MEDICAL personnel; CONTACT tracing
- Publication
Virology Journal, 2021, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1743-422X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12985-021-01533-z