Evaluating addition of self-collected throat swabs to nasal swabs for respiratory virus detection
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Equivalence of Self- and Staff-Collected Nasal Swabs for the Detection of Viral Respiratory Pathogens
BACKGROUND The need for the timely collection of diagnostic biosamples during symptomatic episodes represents a major obstacle to large-scale studies on acute respiratory infection (ARI) epidemiology. This may be circumvented by having the participants collect their own nasal swabs. We compared self- and staff-collected swabs in terms of swabbing quality and detection of viral respiratory patho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Virology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1386-6532
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2019.04.001