* Drs. Poliquin and Johnson-Obaseki contributed equally to this work.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Jill Allan, RN, BN, of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute for
her clinical and methodological assistance to the investigators as a clinical research
assistant; John Trickett, RN, for facilitating the research study as Clinical Director
of The Ottawa Hospital and the COVID-19 Assessment Center; H. Chaim Birnboim, MD,
MSc, former Chief Scientific Officer at DNA Genotek, for his expertise in the functionality
of the saliva collection kits; Karamchand Ramotar, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa, for his guidance and collaboration
in comparing saliva samples with the swab reference standard from the Eastern Ontario
Regional Laboratory Association; Rafal Iwasiow, PhD, of DNA Genotek for his vital
contribution of saliva collection kits and expertise in their functionality; and Stephanie
Burke Schinkel, MSc, of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute for her valuable assistance
to the investigators.
Reproducible Research Statement:
Study protocol: Not available.
Statistical code and data set: Available from Dr. Johnson-Obaseki (e-mail,
stjohnson@
123456toh.ca
).
Corresponding Author: Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki, MD, MPH, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department
of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ottawa, S3, 501 Smyth Road,
Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada; e-mail,
stjohnson@
123456toh.ca
.