E-mail-based symptomatic surveillance combined with self-collection of nasal swabs: A new tool for acute respiratory infection epidemiology

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Akmatov, Manas K ^a   Krebs, Stephan ^a,b   Preusse, Matthias ^a   Gatzemeier, Anja ^a   Frischmann, Ursula ^a   Schughart, Klaus ^a,c   Pessler, Frank ^a,d  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Foundation Inst for Occupational and Social Hygiene   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infections; Modern communication tools; Self collected nasal swabs

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CORONAVIRUS NL63; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE SMEAR; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 2; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMINDER SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF COLLECTED NASAL SWAB; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SELF CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIRUSES;

EID: 80054912070     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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