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Self-Collected Nasal Swabs for Respiratory Virus Surveillance

We tested whether 135 patients reporting acute respiratory illness (ARI) could self-collect nasal swab specimens and ship them for laboratory testing. Most subjects (78.2%) collected and shipped their specimens without errors; 10.5% excluded ≥1 packing components; 12.9% made ≥1 packing errors. Self-...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Michael L., Nguyen, Matthew, Kirlin, Beth, Madziwa, Lawrence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26613095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv152