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Comparing the yield of oropharyngeal swabs and sputum for detection of 11 common pathogens in hospitalized children with lower respiratory tract infection

BACKGROUND: Advances in molecular laboratory techniques are changing the prospects for the diagnosis of viral infectious diseases. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay (multiplex-PCR) can detect dozens of pathogens simultaneously, greatly reducing turnaround time (TAT) and improving detection s...

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Autores principales: Wang, Le, Yang, Shuo, Yan, Xiaotong, Liu, Teng, Feng, Zhishan, Li, Guixia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-019-1177-x