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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015 Oct 17;2(4)
fv152. eCollection 2015.
[h=1]Self-Collected Nasal Swabs for Respiratory Virus Surveillance.[/h] Jackson ML[SUP]1[/SUP], Nguyen M[SUP]1[/SUP], Kirlin B[SUP]1[/SUP], Madziwa L[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] We tested whether 135 patients reporting acute respiratory illness (ARI) could self-collect nasal swab specimens and ship them for laboratory testing. Most subjects (78.2%) collected and shipped their specimens without errors; 10.5% excluded ≥1 packing components; 12.9% made ≥1 packing errors. Self-swabbing at home is feasible for confirming ARI etiology.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] detection; human; influenza; public health surveillance
PMID: 26613095 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] PMCID: PMC4653956 Free PMC Article
fv152. eCollection 2015.[h=1]Self-Collected Nasal Swabs for Respiratory Virus Surveillance.[/h] Jackson ML[SUP]1[/SUP], Nguyen M[SUP]1[/SUP], Kirlin B[SUP]1[/SUP], Madziwa L[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] We tested whether 135 patients reporting acute respiratory illness (ARI) could self-collect nasal swab specimens and ship them for laboratory testing. Most subjects (78.2%) collected and shipped their specimens without errors; 10.5% excluded ≥1 packing components; 12.9% made ≥1 packing errors. Self-swabbing at home is feasible for confirming ARI etiology.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] detection; human; influenza; public health surveillance
PMID: 26613095 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] PMCID: PMC4653956 Free PMC Article