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Self-sampling is appropriate for detection of Staphylococcus aureus: a validation study

BACKGROUND: Studies frequently use nasal swabs to determine Staphylococcus aureus carriage. Self-sampling would be extremely useful in an outhospital research situation, but has not been studied in a healthy population. We studied the similarity of self-samples and investigator-samples in nares and...

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Main Authors: van Cleef, Brigitte AGL, van Rijen, Miranda, Ferket, Marianne, Kluytmans, Jan AJW
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546066/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23137281
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-1-34
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