Comparing nose-throat swabs and nasopharyngeal aspirates collected from children with symptoms for respiratory virus identification using real-time polymerase chain reaction

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Lambert, Stephen ^a,b,d   Whiley, David M ^a,b   T o'Neill, Nicholas ^a   Andrews, Emily C ^a   Canavan, Fiona M ^a   Bletchly, Cheryl ^c   Siebert, David J ^c   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,c   Nissen, Michael D ^a,b,c  

^a Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service District   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Pathology Queensland   (Australia)

^d ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Diagnostic methods; Real time PCR; Respiratory viruses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NEWBORN; NOSE SMEAR; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 51649113731     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0691     Document Type: Article

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