TWiV 899: COVID-19 clinical update #114 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
This Week in Virology
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Sniff Dogs and Scents From Axillary Sweat Samples
The paper screening for sars coby to persistence in long coved patients using sniffer dogs and scents from axillary sweat samples, published in the journal of clinical trial. Can our dogs now tell who has long coved and who might be mlingering? So here the researchers, again, took axillary weat samples from long coving patients and healthy controls, and then had two trained dogs to see if they could tell them apart. Now, the dogs identified half of the patients who reported they had long coved, and they did not flag any of the normal sweat samples. I think this would be great for me use in my clinic when they're trying to deny disability
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