Saliva: A potential specimen for COVID-19 testing

COVID-19 presence worldwide has brought substantial changes in our thinking process. The conventional biological specimen in disease due to viral aetiology ranges from blood to cerebrospinal fluid, Broncho-alveolar lavage. Through, established means of specimen have high sensitivity, other options like using Saliva specimen for testing in a developing country like India may be cost effective. The COVID-19 pandemic is still an evolving condition and best way to mitigate the infection is to increase in testing per day with isolation of the diseased individuals. Hence, Saliva could serve as a potential specimen for COVID-19 testing moreover available literature from other countries is offering promising results.