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why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs

  • Written by Pingping Han, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Saliva is one of our biggest foes in the COVID-19 pandemic, because of its role in spreading the virus. But it could be our friend too, because it potentially offers a way to diagnose the disease without using invasive nasal swabs.

Our research review, published in the journal Diagnostics, suggests saliva could offer a readily...

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