Improved detection of respiratory viruses in pediatric outpatients with acute respiratory illness by real-time PCR using nasopharyngeal flocked swabs

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3365-3367

  Munywoki, Patrick Kiio ^a   Hamid, Fauzat ^a   Mutunga, Martin ^a   Welch, Steve ^b   Cane, Patricia ^b   Nokes, D James ^a,c  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASAL LAVAGE; NASOPHARYNX FLOCKED SWAB; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASAL MUCOSA; NASOPHARYNX; OUTPATIENTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS;

EID: 80052203815     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02231-10     Document Type: Article

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