Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Apr 8;72(7):1253-1255. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa882.
Testing of paired midturbinate (MT) nasal and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, collected by trained personnel from 40 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), showed that more NP (76/95 [80%]) than MT swabs tested positive (61/95 [64%]) (P = .02). Among samples collected a week after study enrollment, fewer MT than NP samples were positive (45% vs 76%; P = .001).
对 40 名 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)患者的经培训人员采集的成对中鼻甲(MT)鼻和鼻咽(NP)拭子进行检测,结果表明,NP 拭子(76/95 [80%])比 MT 拭子(61/95 [64%])的阳性检测结果更多(P =.02)。在研究入组后一周采集的样本中,MT 样本的阳性率低于 NP 样本(45% vs 76%;P =.001)。