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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:Open Forum Infect Dis
Prif Awduron: 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
Fformat: Artigo
Iaith:Inglês
Cyhoeddwyd: Oxford University Press 2020
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Brief Reports
Mynediad Ar-lein: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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