The ability to monitor health status, disease onset, progression, and treatment outcome, through non-invasive approaches that are convenient, simple to use, fast, accurate, and low cost is the ultimate goal.
Saliva is the optimal diagnostic body-fluid for this purpose. It contains many of the same analytes as plasma, and in many cases, reflects the physiological states of blood which makes saliva a desirable body-fluid for diagnostics. Nevertheless, due to technological obstacles, almost no saliva based diagnostic products are available on the market today.
Saliva is gaining increased attention as a preferable body-fluid for COVID-19 detection due to the relatively high viral load it has among a-symptomatic individuals and early symptomatic patients. Saliva testing enables rapid collection with higher compliance from broader population. Utilizing Salignostics collection methods spares the inconvenience related to either Nasopharyngeal or Oropharyngeal swabs used for most collection procedures today.