Limited Added Value of Oropharyngeal Swabs for Detecting Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults

We compared pneumococcal isolation rates and evaluated the benefit of using oropharyngeal (OP) specimens in addition to nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens collected from adults in rural Kenya. Of 846 adults, 52.1% were colonized; pneumococci were detected from both NP and OP specimens in 23.5%, NP only i...

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Publicado no:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Farrar, Jennifer L, Odiembo, Herine, Odoyo, Arthur, Bigogo, Godfrey, Kim, Lindsay, Lessa, Fernanda C, Feikin, Daniel R, Breiman, Robert F, Whitney, Cynthia G, Carvalho, Maria G, Pimenta, Fabiana C
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505525/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32995349
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa368
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