Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens for COVID-19 | NLM

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Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens for COVID-19

07/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/8/2020. These COVID-19 guidelines for laboratories, updated on July 8, 2020, add guidance on properly handling bulk-packaged sterile swabs for specimen collection, update guidance on viral transport medium (VTM) to note that some point-of-care tests advise against its use, and remove preference for NP swabs. (Text)