Self-collection of foam nasal swabs for respiratory virus detection by PCR among immunocompetent subjects and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 324-327

  Campbell, Angela P ^a,b,c   Kuypers, Jane ^a,b   Englund, Janet A ^a,b,c   Guthrie, Katherine A ^b   Corey, Lawrence ^a,b   Boeckh, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BOCAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NOSE SMEAR; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84871683729     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02871-12     Document Type: Article

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