The 2019 novel coronavirus was detected in self-collected throat washings. The positive testing rate of throat washing was much higher than that of nasopharyngeal swabs. Throat washing is a promising candidate for 2019-nCoV screening and monitoring due to its noninvasiveness and reliability.
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Guo, W. L., Jiang, Q., Ye, F., Li, S. Q., Hong, C., Chen, L. Y., & Li, S. Y. (2020). Effect of Throat Washings on Detection of 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(8), 1980–1981. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa416
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