A Look Inside: Oral Sampling for Detection of Non-oral Infectious Diseases

• Published in: Journal of clinical microbiology Vol. 59; no. 10; p. e0236020
• Main Authors: Valinetz, Ethan D, Cangelosi, Gerard A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 20.09.2021
• Subjects: Child; Clinical Microbiology; Communicable Diseases - diagnosis; COVID-19; Humans; Minireview; SARS-CoV-2; Specimen Handling; Sputum; screening; swabs; tuberculosis; diagnosis; malaria; parvovirus; COVID-19; saliva; SARS-CoV-2; HIV; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; pediatric infectious disease; respiratory disease; hepatitis C virus; human immunodeficiency virus; HCV; Pneumocystis; respiratory diseases; Ebola

Efforts to control transmissible infectious diseases rely on the ability to screen large populations, ideally in community settings. These efforts can be limited by the requirement for invasive or logistically difficult collection of patient samples, such as blood, urine, stool, sputum, and nasophar...