Table 1.

Clinical performance comparison between DTS and NPS for detecting SARS‐CoV‐2

	Paired samples (n = 95)
	DTSa	NPSb
No. of RT‐PCR positive sample (%)	51 (53.7)	45 (47.4)
No. of RT‐PCR negative sample (%)	44 (46.3)	50 (52.6)
Overall agreement (95% CIc)	78.9% (69.1%‐86.4%)
Kappa (95% CI)	0.58 (0.42‐0.74)
P d	0.13

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; DTS, deep throat saliva; NPS, nasopharyngeal swabs; RT‐PCR, reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction.

^aDeep throat saliva.

^bNasopharyngeal swab.

^cConfidence internal.

^d P value from Pearson's χ ² comparison.