Collecting specimens from the surface of the respiratory mucosa with nasopharyngeal swabs is a procedure used to diagnose Covid-19 as well as other respiratory viral infections and certain bacteria ...

You have a swab, a test tube container, some FDA-approved fluid that preserves viral specimens and a bio-hazard bag for shipping. It’s a specimen collection and transport system that comes ...

These specimens may include bacterial or viral samples, as well as other microorganisms. Specimens to be examined for viruses, mycoplasma, and ureaplasma are collected and transported using the ...

In this letter, the investigators report that saliva specimens and nasopharyngeal swab specimens had similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both symptomatic and asymptomatic ...

The use of throat swabs for COVID rapid antigen testing is controversial and, to date, studies have reported mixed results. For example, one study found that self-collected throat specimens ...

Preliminary scientific report. Winnett, A. et al. (2022) "Extreme differences in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron viral loads among specimen types drives poor performance of nasal rapid antigen tests for ...