On July 21, 2023, St. Olavs Hospital (University Hospital of Trondheim) released a completed validation study with recommendation for the transition from use of nasopharyngeal swabs to saliva samples collected with SalivaPOD™ and Copan UTM® for routine diagnostic use in PCR detection of respiratory viruses.
The report can be viewed and downloaded in Norwegian and English.
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In the interview below, Andreas Christensen, M.D PhD, Senior Physician at the Laboratory Centre, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, tells about their experiences with saliva samples and results from a recently published validation report – in which a comparison was made between nasopharyngeal swab samples and saliva samples taken with SalivaPOD (paired samples Day 1 and Day 2).
Based on the results of the validation, St. Olav’s Hospital decided in July 2023 to recommend SalivaPOD-based diagnostics for all viral respiratory infections in the primary care service.
