2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Sars virus

Public health

Chromatography

Betacoronavirus

Virology

Computer science

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Software

Vaccination

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

Saliva

Coronavirus Infections

Test strategy

Medicine

Chemistry

Programming language

Sample (material)

Gold standard (test)

Disease

Pathology

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

As COVID-19 continues to strain public health systems and vaccination programmes race against new variants that might be more transmissible or capable of evading immune responses, the urgent need for simple, accessible, and frequent testing remains. Inexpensive, scalable, and sustainable strategies that allow easily repeatable testing over time need to be made widely available. This is possible by testing saliva.

Saliva as a gold-standard sample for SARS-CoV-2 detection