What Is the Added Benefit of Oropharyngeal Swabs Compared to Nasal Swabs Alone for Respiratory Virus Detection in Hospitalized Children Aged < 10 Years?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1600-1603

  Dawood, Fatimah S ^a   Jara, Jorge ^b   Estripeaut, Dora ^c   Vergara, Ofelina ^c   Luciani, Kathia ^d   Corro, Mary ^d   De León, Tirza ^f   Saldaña, Ricardo ^f   Baires, Juan Miguel Castillo ^g   Flores, Rafael Rauda ^g   Cazares, Rafael A ^h   De Fuentes, Yarisa Sujey Brizuela ^h   Franco, Danilo ^e   Gaitan, Melissa ^e   Schneider, Eileen ^a   Berman, Lashondra ^a   Azziz Baumgartner, Eduardo ^a   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^c Hospital del Nino   (Panama)

^d Hospital de Especialidades Pediatricas Omar Torrijos Herrera   (Panama)

^e GORGAS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (Panama)

^f Hospital José Domingo de Obaldía   (Panama)

^g Hospital San Juan De Dios   (El Salvador)

^h San Juan de Dios National Hospital   (El Salvador)

Author keywords

Children, Hospitalized; Human metapneumovirus; influenza, human; Parainfluenza; Respiratory syncytial virus infections

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRIDAE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OROPHARYNGEAL SWAB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINOVIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMEAR; VIRUS DETECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOUTH; NEWBORN; NOSE CAVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS DISEASES;

CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOUTH; NASAL CAVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84956586774     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv265     Document Type: Article

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