Comparison of Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of Eight Respiratory Viruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays

BACKGROUND: Many acute respiratory illness surveillance systems collect and test nasopharyngeal (NP) and/or oropharyngeal (OP) swab specimens, yet there are few studies assessing the relative measures of performance for NP versus OP specimens. METHODS: We collected paired NP and OP swabs separately...

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Autores principales: Kim, Curi, Ahmed, Jamal A., Eidex, Rachel B., Nyoka, Raymond, Waiboci, Lilian W., Erdman, Dean, Tepo, Adan, Mahamud, Abdirahman S., Kabura, Wamburu, Nguhi, Margaret, Muthoka, Philip, Burton, Wagacha, Breiman, Robert F., Njenga, M. Kariuki, Katz, Mark A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021610

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