Title |
Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs
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Published in |
medRxiv, April 2020
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DOI | 10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835 |
Authors |
Anne L. Wyllie, John Fournier, Arnau Casanovas-Massana, Melissa Campbell, Maria Tokuyama, Pavithra Vijayakumar, Bertie Geng, M. Catherine Muenker, Adam J. Moore, Chantal B.F. Vogels, Mary E. Petrone, Isabel M. Ott, Peiwen Lu, Arvind Venkataraman, Alice Lu-Culligan, Jonathan Klein, Rebecca Earnest, Michael Simonov, Rupak Datta, Ryan Handoko, Nida Naushad, Lorenzo R. Sewanan, Jordan Valdez, Elizabeth B. White, Sarah Lapidus, Chaney C. Kalinich, Xiaodong Jiang, Daniel J. Kim, Eriko Kudo, Melissa Linehan, Tianyang Mao, Miyu Moriyama, Ji Eun Oh, Annsea Park, Julio Silva, Eric Song, Takehiro Takahashi, Manabu Taura, Orr-El Weizman, Patrick Wong, Yexin Yang, Santos Bermejo, Camila Odio, Saad B. Omer, Charles S. Dela Cruz, Shelli Farhadian, Richard A. Martinello, Akiko Iwasaki, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Albert I. Ko |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1211 | 18% |
Japan | 347 | 5% |
United Kingdom | 232 | 3% |
Turkey | 224 | 3% |
Spain | 187 | 3% |
Peru | 162 | 2% |
Canada | 89 | 1% |
France | 89 | 1% |
Australia | 54 | <1% |
Other | 796 | 12% |
Unknown | 3455 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 5661 | 83% |
Scientists | 806 | 12% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 266 | 4% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 110 | 2% |
Unknown | 3 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Unknown | 739 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Researcher | 152 | 21% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 82 | 11% |
Other | 70 | 9% |
Student > Master | 68 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 57 | 8% |
Other | 140 | 19% |
Unknown | 170 | 23% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 136 | 18% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 111 | 15% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 64 | 9% |
Engineering | 48 | 6% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 43 | 6% |
Other | 118 | 16% |
Unknown | 219 | 30% |