Keep your nose out of it: why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
- Written by Pingping Han, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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...