About the Authors

Benoit Pétré

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoit Pétré, Marine Paridans

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

benoit.petre@uliege.be

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Marine Paridans

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoit Pétré, Marine Paridans

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Nicolas Gillain

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Eddy Husson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Anne-Françoise Donneau

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, Risk Assessment Group COVID-19, Liège University, Liège, Belgium, University and Hospital Biostatistics Center (B-STAT), Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Nadia Dardenne

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, University and Hospital Biostatistics Center (B-STAT), Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Christophe Breuer

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Fabienne Michel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Risk Assessment Group COVID-19, Liège University, Liège, Belgium, Collection and Analysis of Data and Information of Strategic Utility (RADIUS), Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Margaux Dandoy

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Covid-19 Platform, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Fabrice Bureau

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Covid-19 Platform, Liège University, Liège, Belgium, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, GIGA Institute, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Laurent Gillet

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Covid-19 Platform, Liège University, Liège, Belgium, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animal and Health (FARAH) Center, Liège University, Liège, Belgium, Laboratory of Immunology-Vaccinology, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Dieudonné Leclercq

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

Michèle Guillaume

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, Risk Assessment Group COVID-19, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

Competing Interests

FB and LG are the inventors of the device used in the saliva collection kit. This device was patented (WO2022013235A1) and produced by Diagenode (Seraing, Belgium) under a commercial agreement with the University of Liège. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.