Comparison of Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of Eight Respiratory Viruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays

BACKGROUND: Many acute respiratory illness surveillance systems collect and test nasopharyngeal (NP) and/or oropharyngeal (OP) swab specimens, yet there are few studies assessing the relative measures of performance for NP versus OP specimens. METHODS: We collected paired NP and OP swabs separately...

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Main Authors: Kim, Curi, Ahmed, Jamal A., Eidex, Rachel B., Nyoka, Raymond, Waiboci, Lilian W., Erdman, Dean, Tepo, Adan, Mahamud, Abdirahman S., Kabura, Wamburu, Nguhi, Margaret, Muthoka, Philip, Burton, Wagacha, Breiman, Robert F., Njenga, M. Kariuki, Katz, Mark A.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128075/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738731
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021610
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