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China Is Using Anal Swabs to Test for Coronavirus—Here's What Experts Think
Nose and throat swabs are standard in the US, but the new swab test might be more accurate, according to some experts.
After localized COVID-19 outbreaks in parts of China, including the capital city Beijing, authorities there have started using anal swabs to test for the virus instead of the usual nose and throat swabs. The reason for the switch? Anal swabs might be better at detecting the virus, some experts believe.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, anal swab testing has been conducted mainly on people living in areas with confirmed COVID cases and those who have been quarantined. Passengers arriving in Beijing and a group of more than 1,000 school children and teachers who were thought to have been exposed to the virus are among the people who've undergone anal swabbing, according to Forbes.
An anal swab test involves inserting a cotton swab 1.2 to 2 inches into the rectum. Once it's there, the swab is gently rotated several times, then removed and placed into a sample container. The entire process only takes about 10 seconds.
Some experts in China say the anal swab method is a more accurate way of testing for COVID-19 because traces of the virus linger longer in the anus than in the respiratory tract. Li Tongzeng, a senior doctor from Beiking's Youan hospital, told CCTV that an anal swab "can increase the detection rate of infected people."
Anal swabs have actually been used in China to detect the coronavirus since last year, primarily in key groups at quarantine centers. However, CCTV said anal swabs wouldn't be used as widely as other methods, purely because the technique is "not convenient."
"We found that some asymptomatic patients tend to recover quickly. It's possible that there will be no trace of the virus in their throat after three to five days," Tongzeng said. "But the virus lasts longer from the samples taken from the patient's digestive tract and excrement, compared to the ones taken from the respiratory tract. If we conduct anal swabs for nucleic acid testing, it would increase the detection rates of patients and lower the chance of a missed diagnosis."
A city official in Weinan, in northern Shaanxi province, referred to the case of a 52-year-old man whose symptoms included coughing. The man, who was confined to a centralized facility for medical observation due to being a close contact of another COVID-19 patient earlier in January, initially tested negative for coronavirus. But he was subsequently tested via an anal swab and confirmed to have the virus, the city official told a news conference, as reported by Al Jazeera.
Using anal swabs to detect COVID-19 remains controversial. Yang Zhanqiu, a deputy director of the pathogen biology department at Wuhan University, told China's Global Times that the nasal and throat swabs remain the most efficient test, since the virus is proven to be contracted through the upper respiratory tract, not the digestive system.
But there is some research to support anal swabbing for COVID-19—in children, at least. A paper published in September 2020 by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) found that stool tests may be more effective than respiratory tests in identifying COVID-19 infections in children and infants because they carry a higher viral load in their stool than adults.
To date, there's no word about whether US officials will consider using anal swab tests to detect coronavirus; nose and throat swabs are the mainstay here. The practice also has its drawbacks. Infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, MD, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Maryland, tells Health that while it's true that SARS-CoV2 can be found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and sewage surveillance can be useful to understand community prevalence, it's unclear whether anal swabbing of people is a very useful way of detecting contagious people, especially when they're asymptomatic.
"I also worry that such messages may discourage people from getting tested," Dr. Adalja adds. "For most purposes, including screening asymptomatic individuals, nasal or saliva samples are sufficient."
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Method can increase detection rate among infected people, senior Beijing doctor tells state TV
Commuters in Beijing on Wednesday. Officials reportedly took anal swabs from residents of areas with confirmed Covid cases in the capital last week. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Last modified on Wed 27 Jan 2021 11.19 GMT
China has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers to be at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV has reported.
Officials took anal swabs from residents of neighbourhoods with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Beijing last week, according to the state broadcaster CCTV, while those in designated quarantine facilities have also had the tests.
Small, localised outbreaks in recent weeks have resulted in multiple cities in northern China being sealed off from the rest of the country and prompted mass testing campaigns, which had mostly been conducted using throat and nose swabs.
The anal swabs method “can increase the detection rate of infected people” as traces of the virus linger longer in the anus than in the respiratory tract, Li Tongzeng, a senior doctor from Beijing’s Youan hospital, told CCTV.
CCTV said on Sunday anal swabs would not be used as widely as other methods, as the technique was “not convenient”.
As cases rise around the world, China has imposed stricter requirements on international arrivals in an effort to keep domestic transmission close to zero.
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The country has also tightened internal restrictions, with Beijing announcing that people from medium- or high-risk areas will be barred from the city from Thursday to reduce the risk of transmission over the lunar new year period.
Arrivals into the country must provide multiple negative test results and quarantine for at least 14 days in a designated hotel, with many cities and regions imposing additional home observation requirements.
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