Equivalence of self- and staff-collected nasal swabs for the detection of viral respiratory pathogens.
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2012
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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.Citation
Equivalence of self- and staff-collected nasal swabs for the detection of viral respiratory pathogens. 2012, 7 (11):e48508 PLoS ONEAffiliation
Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.Journal
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1932-6203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0048508
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