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          • nasopharyngeal swab
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          • A nasopharyngeal swab can look like an extra-long Q-Tip or a plastic wand with a collection surface on the end. It is inserted up the nose, far back where the health-care professional collects a sample by swabbing. This is the method preferred by the World Health Organization in testing for COVID-19. However, there is another method of collection available to health-care professionals: an oropharyngeal swab. Instead of going up a patient's nose, the sample is collected orally at the back of a patient's throat. CBC Canada
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          • Even as state and local governments continue to buy traditional coronavirus testing kits that rely on nasopharyngeal swabs, major research universities and their private-sector partners are trying to leapfrog ahead to the next generation of tests. - Washington Post by
          • Health officials on the North Olympic Peninsula also have deployed a patient-collected nasal swab that does not require a heath care worker to insert a nasopharyngeal swab into the back of a person’s nasal cavity. - Sequim Gazette by
          • We found it performs as well as, and in a number of cases better, than the nasopharyngeal swab, said lead researcher Anne Wyllie, an associate research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn. "We have another very viable option." - WebMD by
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          • écouvillon nasopharyngé
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          • Le Conseil national professionnel des biologistes médicaux a publié cette semaine une communication visant à rappeler les règles de bonnes pratiques concernant le prélèvement des patients suspectés d'être atteints de COVID-19. Avec un mot d'ordre : la recherche de COVID-19 par RT-PCR et écouvillon doit impérativement être réalisée sur un prélèvement nasopharyngé. SDBIO - by Samuel Clarisse
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          • introduire l’écouvillon par la bouche jusqu’au pharynx et frotter la muqueuse (voir dessin ci-dessous, frottis pharyngé). Puis introduire l’écouvillon (ou un 2èmeécouvillon si disponible) dans le conduit nasal jusqu’à atteindre le nasopharynx (environ 7 cm de l’arcade chez l’adulte),faire 2 rotations. - Hug-ge by Samuel Clarisse
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