Added value of an oropharyngeal swab in detection of viruses in children hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2318-2320

  Hammitt, Laura L ^a,b   Kazungu, Sidi ^a   Welch, Steve ^c   Bett, Anne ^a   Onyango, Clayton O ^a   Gunson, Rory N ^d   Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b   Nokes, D James ^a,e  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNGEAL SWAB; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

ADENOVIRIDAE;

EID: 79957530522     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02605-10     Document Type: Article

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