Comparison of Nasopharyngeal Swabs with Salivary Samples for Viral Nucleic Acid Detection from Clinical and Radiologically Confirmed Cases of Sars-Cov-2 in a Tertiary Care Centre, Thanjavur

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported cases of pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan city, China in December 2019. The disease was identified to be caused by a novel corona virus which was later named as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease was named Corona Virus