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A comparison of cotton and flocked swabs for vaginal self-sample collection

OBJECTIVE: Vaginal self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has recently been proposed to optimize cervical cancer screening coverage. The objective of this study was to compare the performance of self-taken samples using flocked and cotton swabs for HPV detection and cellular retrieval....

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Autores principales: Viviano, Manuela, Willame, Alexia, Cohen, Marie, Benski, Anne-Caroline, Catarino, Rosa, Wuillemin, Christine, Tran, Phuong Lien, Petignat, Patrick, Vassilakos, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805267
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S157897