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1019. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Diagnoses in Hospitalized Patients Increases when Additional Specimen Types are Added to Nasopharyngeal Swab: Results from the RSV in Adults Multispecimen Study

BACKGROUND: RSV infection diagnosis in hospitalized adults is based primarily on PCR testing of nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs. Adding sputum is known to increase diagnostic yield, and saliva has been successfully used for viral respiratory infection diagnosis, however, no study has evaluated the synergi...

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Autores principales: Ramirez, Julio, Carrico, Ruth, Wilde, Ashley M, Junkins, Alan, Chandler, Thomas R, Furmanek, Stephen, Hubler, Robin, Liu, Qing, Uppal, Sonal, Peyrani, Paula, Aliabadi, Negar, Gessner, Bradford J, Begier, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10679199/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad500.050