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Mailed versus frozen transport of nasal swabs for surveillance of respiratory bacteria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia
BACKGROUND: Surveillance programs and research for acute respiratory infections in remote Australian communities are complicated by difficulties in the storage and transport of frozen samples to urban laboratories for testing. This study assessed the sensitivity of a simple method for transporting n...
Autores principales: | O’Grady, Kerry-Ann F, Whiley, David M, Torzillo, Paul J, Sloots, Theo P, Lambert, Stephen B |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24228701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-543 |
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