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Equivalence of self- and staff-collected nasal swabs for the detection of viral respiratory pathogens.

Akmatov, Manas K
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Gatzemeier, Anja
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Schughart, Klaus
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Pessler, Frank
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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 pathogens.
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Equivalence of self- and staff-collected nasal swabs for the detection of viral respiratory pathogens. 2012, 7 (11):e48508 PLoS ONE
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Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
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PloS one
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http://hdl.handle.net/10033/255240
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10.1371/journal.pone.0048508
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23155387
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