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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Vydáno v:	J Clin Microbiol
Hlavní autoři:	Marcon, M J, Hamoudi, A C, Cannon, H J, Hribar, M M
Médium:	Artigo
Jazyk:	Inglês
Vydáno:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1987
Témata:	Research Article
On-line přístup:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC269146/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2885339/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.25.6.1109-1110.1987
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