Detection of COVID-19 in Saliva Collection (SALICOV)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sars-CoV2; Nasopharyngeal Sample; Saliva Collection; RT-PCR

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04386551

PI2020_843_0045

Details and patient eligibility

About

Since December 2019, the world has faced a pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a virus that emerged in China. The reference diagnosis is based on the search for the SARS-COV-2 genome in the nasopharyngeal sample.

Carrying out this sample requires the competence of a healthcare professional and presents some inconveniences for the tested patient. Because saliva collection is simple, non-invasive, painless and inexpensive, and can be performed by poorly trained personnel, it could be an alternative to the reference nasopharyngeal sample. SARS-CoV2 detection in human saliva could be a potential diagnosis of COVID infection.

Enrollment: 501 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient hospitalized at the Amiens CHU in a COVID-19 unit
• patient seen as outpatient in the area of infectious pathologies for COVID-19 infection

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under 18
• patients under guardianship or curators