On‐site, on‐demand 3d‐printed nasopharyngeal swabs to improve the access of coronavirus disease‐19 testing

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• who: On-Site et al. from the floor of the nose to the posterior nasopharynx and rotated several times while the swab is in contact with the nasopharyngeal wall[5] After removal, the nasopharyngeal swab tip is snapped off, placed in viral transport medium, and sent to a laboratory for analysis by RT-PCR. While other upper respiratory sites (anterior and mid-turbinate nasal, oropharyngeal) can also be sampled, several comparative studies demonstrate higher clinical sensitivity for nasopharyngeal swab testing for various patient populations at the same time course of infection.[6] The unprecedented increase in demand . . .
  

   

  

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