The new test may catch active tuberculosis in those with low access to health care or who have trouble making the phlegm ...

Adding a throat swab specimen to a nasal specimen significantly increased sensitivity of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, whether self-collected or collected by a healthcare worker, a randomized clinical ...

A simple swab of the tongue could make it easier to do tuberculosis testing and diagnose millions of cases earlier.

The Agency warned that use of an alternate sample type (eg, blood, saliva) may lead to false test results. When testing for monkeypox virus, only swab samples taken directly from a lesion (rash or ...

Increased Sample Throughput and Consistency in COVID-19 and Other Swab-Based Tests is Supported through Use of the Novel RHINOstic™ Automated Nasal Swab WALTHAM, Mass. & WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...

Antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) play a significant role in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing. Most Ag-RDTs currently used require nasopharyngeal ...

As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used. The study led by ...

A few weeks ago, Perry, who lives in Chicago's northwest suburbs, started feeling symptoms of what he thought was COVID-19. The 64-year-old and his wife drove from their house to Waukegan to get ...

Novel RHINOstic™ Swab Collection Device and Automated Liquid Handlers Increase Testing Throughput while Decreasing Active Manpower RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hamilton Company and Rhinostics, an ...

Researchers have evaluated 3D printed sample collection swabs made in-house and found them to be a reliable alternative to commercial swabs. The detection of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), ...