Feasibility Study of Mixing Throat Swab Samples for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Screening

Yang Han; Qingyu Yang; Ying Liu; Ting Shu; Li Yue; Ting Xiao; Qin Zeng; Ying Wu; Xi Zhou; Dingyu Zhang

doi:10.1007/s12250-020-00254-x

Feasibility Study of Mixing Throat Swab Samples for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Screening

Virol Sin. 2020 Dec;35(6):830-832. doi: 10.1007/s12250-020-00254-x. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Authors

Yang Han^#^{1

2

3}, Qingyu Yang^#^{1

2

3}, Ying Liu^{1

3}, Ting Shu^{1

2

3}, Li Yue^{1

3}, Ting Xiao^{1

3}, Qin Zeng^{1

3}, Ying Wu^{1

4}, Xi Zhou^{5

6

7}, Dingyu Zhang^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Translational Medicine, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, 430023, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, 430071, China.
³ Joint Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Health, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, CAS, Wuhan, 430023, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.
⁵ Center for Translational Medicine, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, 430023, China. zhouxi@wh.iov.cn.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, 430071, China. zhouxi@wh.iov.cn.
⁷ Joint Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Health, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, CAS, Wuhan, 430023, China. zhouxi@wh.iov.cn.
⁸ Center for Translational Medicine, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, 430023, China. zhangdy63@hotmail.com.
⁹ Joint Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Health, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, CAS, Wuhan, 430023, China. zhangdy63@hotmail.com.

^# Contributed equally.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing / methods*
Feasibility Studies
Humans
Mass Screening / methods
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Pharynx / virology*
Specimen Handling / methods*