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Comparison of throat and nasopharyngeal swab specimens for culture diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis infection.

During a 9-month period, we evaluated the relative sensitivity of throat and nasopharyngeal swab cultures for isolation of Bordetella pertussis. Of 38 pertussis cases, 36 (95%) had positive nasopharyngeal cultures, while only 16 of 36 (44%) had positive throat cultures. There were no cases of nasoph...

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Auteurs principaux: Marcon, M J, Hamoudi, A C, Cannon, H J, Hribar, M M
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: 1987
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC269146/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2885339
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