Design, creation, and use of the Test Us Bank (TUB) COVID-19 sample biorepository

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Current biorepository sample types and aliquot catalog

Sample Type	All Negative			All Positive			Symptomatic Positiveb			Asymptomatic Positiveb
	Samplesa	Aliquots	Total Specimens	Samplesa	Aliquots	Total Specimens	Samplesa	Aliquots	Total Specimens	Samplesa	Aliquots	Total Specimens
Anterior Nares swab	170	224	394	261	610	871	225	544	769	36	66	102
Mid-turbinate swab	784	1,489	2,273	366	827	1,193	318	734	1,052	48	93	141
Nasopharyngeal swab	540	654	1,194	8,516	19,628	28,144	151	427	578	20	37	57
PBMC		8	8		25	25		21	21		4	4
Plasma		817	817		525	525		453	453		72	72
Saliva	1,042	1,707	2,749	10,923	12,567	23,490	258	663	921	45	131	176
Venous blood	118	4	122	80		80	68		68	12		12

^aOriginal samples provided by participant that have not yet been separated into aliquots
^bCCTS samples do not include patient characteristics such as symptomatology

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