Concordance between RT-PCR-based detection of respiratory viruses from nasal swabs collected for viral testing and nasopharyngeal swabs collected for bacterial testing

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 309-312

  Grijalva, Carlos G ^a   Griffin, Marie R ^a   Edwards, Kathryn M ^a   Johnson, Monika ^a   Gil, Ana I ^b   Verástegui, Héctor ^b   Lanata, Claudio F ^b   Williams, John V ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

Author keywords

Children; Epidemiology; Nasal swab; Nasopharyngeal swab; Respiratory virus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; POLYESTER;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILK; NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; VIRUS DETECTION; BACTERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

BACTERIA; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUSES;

EID: 84902215163     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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