| Literature DB >> 20610685 |
Marek Smieja1, Santina Castriciano, Susan Carruthers, Geoffrey So, Sylvia Chong, Kathy Luinstra, James B Mahony, Astrid Petrich, Max Chernesky, Mario Savarese, Daniele Triva.
Abstract
We developed and evaluated flocked nasal midturbinate swabs obtained from 55 asymptomatic and 108 symptomatic volunteers. Self-collected swabs obtained from asymptomatic volunteers yielded numbers of respiratory epithelial cells comparable to those of staff-collected nasal (n = 55) or nasopharyngeal (n = 20) swabs. Specific viruses were detected in swabs self-collected by 42/108 (38.9%) symptomatic volunteers by multiplex PCR.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20610685 PMCID: PMC2937679 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02235-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948