Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is still a great concern, and recognition of the carrier is essential for appropriate infection control in intensive care units. The utility of wet swab compared to dry swab as an intranasal screening test has not been well assessed yet. A comparative stud...

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Autores principales: Hagiya, Hideharu, Mio, Mitsunobu, Murase, Tomoko, Egawa, Keiko, Kokumai, Yumi, Uchida, Taeko, Morimoto, Naoki, Otsuka, Fumio, Shiota, Sumiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-1-10
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author Hagiya, Hideharu
Mio, Mitsunobu
Murase, Tomoko
Egawa, Keiko
Kokumai, Yumi
Uchida, Taeko
Morimoto, Naoki
Otsuka, Fumio
Shiota, Sumiko
author_facet Hagiya, Hideharu
Mio, Mitsunobu
Murase, Tomoko
Egawa, Keiko
Kokumai, Yumi
Uchida, Taeko
Morimoto, Naoki
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description Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is still a great concern, and recognition of the carrier is essential for appropriate infection control in intensive care units. The utility of wet swab compared to dry swab as an intranasal screening test has not been well assessed yet. A comparative study of the wet and dry swab in its ability to detect the organism was performed against critically ill patients, and it was found that there were no statistically significant differences between the two different methods. The wet swab did not show increased sensitivity compared to dry one.
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spelling pubmed-43362702015-02-22 Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test? Hagiya, Hideharu Mio, Mitsunobu Murase, Tomoko Egawa, Keiko Kokumai, Yumi Uchida, Taeko Morimoto, Naoki Otsuka, Fumio Shiota, Sumiko J Intensive Care Letter to the Editor Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is still a great concern, and recognition of the carrier is essential for appropriate infection control in intensive care units. The utility of wet swab compared to dry swab as an intranasal screening test has not been well assessed yet. A comparative study of the wet and dry swab in its ability to detect the organism was performed against critically ill patients, and it was found that there were no statistically significant differences between the two different methods. The wet swab did not show increased sensitivity compared to dry one. BioMed Central 2013-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4336270/ /pubmed/25705403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-1-10 Text en © Hagiya et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Hagiya, Hideharu
Mio, Mitsunobu
Murase, Tomoko
Egawa, Keiko
Kokumai, Yumi
Uchida, Taeko
Morimoto, Naoki
Otsuka, Fumio
Shiota, Sumiko
Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title_full Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title_fullStr Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title_full_unstemmed Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title_short Is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
title_sort is wet swab superior to dry swab as an intranasal screening test?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-0492-1-10
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