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Evaluating addition of self-collected throat swabs to nasal swabs for respiratory virus detection

BACKGROUND: Early and accurate detection of respiratory viruses (RV) is important for patient management. We have previously shown that self-collected nasal swabs (NS) are feasible and as sensitive as clinician-collected nasal washes for detection of RV, but the additive benefit of self-collected th...

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Autores principales: Fisher, Cynthia E., Boeckh, Michael, Jerome, Keith R., Englund, Janet, Kuypers, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30978619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2019.04.001