Do infants and toddlers prefer nasal swabs or washes for specimen collection?

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1156-1157

  Walsh, Paul ^a   Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^b   Higashida, Kikue ^b   Michaelson, Scott ^b   Pham, Kiemanh ^b   Nguyen, Patrick ^b   Rothenberg, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOSE SECRETION; NOSE SMEAR; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGN TEST;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; NASAL MUCOSA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 78650360093     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181fb45ae     Document Type: Letter

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