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E-mail-based symptomatic surveillance combined with self-collection of nasal swabs: a new tool for acute respiratory infection epidemiology

OBJECTIVE: We examined the feasibility of combining communication by e-mail and self-collection of nasal swabs for the prospective detection of acute respiratory infections in a non-medical setting. METHODS: The study was conducted among a convenience sample of employees (n = 53) at a research insti...

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Autores principales: Akmatov, Manas K., Krebs, Stephan, Preusse, Matthias, Gatzemeier, Anja, Frischmann, Ursula, Schughart, Klaus, Pessler, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Society for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21852171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2011.07.005