Evaluation of Nasopharyngeal Swab Collection Techniques for Nucleic Acid Recovery and Participant Experience: Recommendations for COVID-19 Diagnostics

Nasopharyngeal swabs are critical to the diagnosis of respiratory infections including coronavirus disease 2019, but collection techniques vary. We compared 2 recommended nasopharyngeal swab collection techniques in adult volunteers and found that swab rotation following nasopharyngeal contact did n...

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Autores principales: Kinloch, Natalie N, Shahid, Aniqa, Ritchie, Gordon, Dong, Winnie, Lawson, Tanya, Montaner, Julio S G, Romney, Marc G, Stefanovic, Aleksandra, Matic, Nancy, Brumme, Chanson J, Lowe, Christopher F, Brumme, Zabrina L, Leung, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa488