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editorial . 2020 Apr 30:ciaa511. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa511
Throat Wash Testing and COVID-19 Disease: Should We Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is?
Farhana Ali
1, Daniel A Sweeney
2,✉
Farhana Ali, MD
1
Division of Gastroenterology,
Department of Pediatrics,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Daniel A Sweeney, MD
2
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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1
Division of Gastroenterology,
Department of Pediatrics,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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Corresponding author: Daniel A. Sweeney, Email: dasweeney@ucsd.edu
Received 2020 Apr 25.
Keywords: Throat washings, Nasopharyngeal swab, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
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See commentary "Effect of throat washings on detection of 2019 novel coronavirus", ciaa416.