The performance of 3 different sampling methods (2 nasopharyngeal swabs, 1 oropharyngeal swab) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 with real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction will be compared.
Thirty volunteers will be recruited from health care workers suspicious for Covid-19, who
consult the ocupational physician for Covid-19 testing.
For each volunteer, 3 swabs will be taken:
- Flocked eSwab (Copan, Italy) of the oropharynx
- Flocked nasopharyngeal eSwab (Copan, Italy) of the nasopharynx
- Dry flocked nasopharyngeal Swab, placed in lysis buffer Each swab will be tested for the
presence of SARS-CoV-2 with an in-house reverse-transcriptase real-time PCR (Egene).
Performance of each method will be calculated.
Other: samling of oropharynx and nasopharynx
Three different swabs will be taken of each participant: 1 oropharyngeal swab and 2 nasopharyngeal swabs
Inclusion Criteria:
- health care workers with symptoms suspicious for Covid-19
Exclusion Criteria:
- none
Jessa Hospital
Hasselt, Belgium
Reinoud Cartuyvels, Principal Investigator
Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium