Sample self-collection, a lesson gained during the COVID pandemic

During the symposium, four distinguished speaker updated the audience on the advances, achievements, and future trends of sample self-collection.
The talks explore self-collection experiences in different fields (STIs, HPV, respiratory infections, genetics, serology) and will dig all the challenges and opportunities of this specimen collection approach that improves patient comfort and confidence, reduces health care provider hands-on time and risk of exposure to infections, supporting sample management for the pre-analytics.
If you attended ECCMID, you can watch the full symposium on the congress platform. If not, watch the talks below!