Development and Evaluation of a Flocked Nasal Midturbinate Swab for Self-Collection in Respiratory Virus Infection Diagnostic Testing

We developed and evaluated flocked nasal midturbinate swabs obtained from 55 asymptomatic and 108 symptomatic volunteers. Self-collected swabs obtained from asymptomatic volunteers yielded numbers of respiratory epithelial cells comparable to those of staff-collected nasal (n = 55) or nasopharyngeal...

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Main Authors: Smieja, Marek, Castriciano, Santina, Carruthers, Susan, So, Geoffrey, Chong, Sylvia, Luinstra, Kathy, Mahony, James B., Petrich, Astrid, Chernesky, Max, Savarese, Mario, Triva, Daniele
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Virology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937679/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20610685
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02235-09
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