Comparison of Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of Eight Respiratory Viruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays

Curi Kim(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Mark A. Katz(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Lilian W. Waiboci(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Dean D. Erdman(University College Dublin), M. Kariuki Njenga(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Jamal Ahmed(University of Warwick), Robert F. Breiman(Emory University), Abdirahman Mahamud(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret Nguhi, Rachel B. Eidex, Philip Muthoka(Ministry of Health), Raymond Nyoka(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Adan Tepo(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Kabura Wamburu(Kenya Medical Research Institute), Wagacha Burton
PLoS ONE
June 30, 2011
10.1371/journal.pone.0021610
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