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Accuracy and stability of saliva as a sample for reverse transcription PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2

https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206972

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    • Handling editor Tahir S Pillay.

    • YU and MN contributed equally.

    • Contributors YU and MN equally contributed to this work. YU conceived, designed the study, analysed and interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript. MN conceived, designed the study, performed the assays and analysed the data. WA, YF, TN, YS-T and KI-H performed the assays. TS, ShoUc, ShuUn, HirokK, SI and HirofK collected the data, and all authors discussed the data and critically reviewed and revised the manuscript. All authors have given final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published.

    • Funding This study was funded by Keio University Hospital and partly supported by a Research Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (JP19fk0108113) from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-funded Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis (Grant HHSN272201400008C).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Ethics approval This study was approved by Ethics Committee of Keio University School of Medicine (20 200 063 and 20190337).

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.