SARS‐CoV2 antigen in whole mouth fluid may be a reliable rapid detection tool
SARS-CoV2, transmitted through respiratory secretions within close contacts, primarily infects epithelial/endothelial cells lining the respiratory mucosae. Nasopharyngeal swab (NPS), the favoured sample for reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) retrieves SARS-CoV2-infected cells with minimal aerosol formation (Wang et al. 2020; CDC guidelines, 2020).
Authors
- Pasuvaraj Mahanathi
- Gunaseelan Rajan
- Priya Kannian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-6676)
- Krittika Ravichandran
- Stephen Challacombe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7327-6927)
- Veeraraghavan Ashwini
- Newell W. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5866-262X)
- Jayaraman Bagavad Gita
- Chandra Lavanya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9477-6943)
- Kannan Ranganathan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-4145)
- Jennifer Webster‐Cyriaque
- Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2252-5731)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- UNC Libraries
- Published
- 2025-06-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17615/kbrn-zj19
- Primary Topic
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00