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Baseline patient characteristics.
| Characteristics | NPS |
Saliva |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 117) | (N = 73) | |||
| Age (median, IQR) | 47 (32–61) | 48 (34–59) | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 77 | 46 | p = 0.756 | |
| Female | 44 | 27 | ||
| Days from onset, (median, IQR) | 8 (6–11) | 9 (6–11) | p = 0.817 | |
| Ct values of RT-PCR (N1 set) | 32.43 (27.01–36.59) | 30.45 (26.75–32.91) | p = 0.072 | |
| Collection | ||||
| Simultaneous (NPS and saliva) | 54 | 54 | ||
| Either NPS or saliva alone | 63 | 19 | ||
| Viral Culture Performed | 76 | 41 | ||
| Positive results | 23 | 2 | p = 0.001 | |
| Negative results | 53 | 39 | ||
