Nasopharyngeal swabs
Detection of Amantadine Resistant Influenza A Virus Strains in Nursing Homes by PCR Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis with Nasopharyngeal Swabs
... Patients and sample collections. Institutionalized elderly (over 65 years old) with influenza-like illness (ILI) in eight nursing homes in Niigata Prefecture were enrolled from November 1998 to March 1999. The average ...
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Genomic Load from Sputum Samples and Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in HIV Infected Adults
... within the same range as that reported from a New Zealand study by Werno et al. (9). The most likely explanation for this slight difference is the different patient populations and the sputum being induced in our study; ...
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Evaluation of the rapid immunochromatographic ODK0501 assay for Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen detection with nasopharyngeal swabs: preliminary report
... Out of the 60 patients who participated in this study, only four patients showed positive test results when using RAPIRUN with nasopharyngeal swabs. The char- acteristics of these four patients and the ...
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Detection of human coronaviruses in simultaneously collected stool samples and nasopharyngeal swabs from hospitalized children with acute gastroenteritis
... and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs in children with AGE (with or without associated respiratory symptoms) and in control subjects, with the aim of appraising their role in the etiology of ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of the ePlex Respiratory Pathogen Panel for the Detection of Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Tract Pathogens in Nasopharyngeal Swabs
... patient groups, including immunocompromised patients, elderly patients, and critically ill patients, complications from respiratory tract infections often occur, with poor outcomes including increased morbidity and ...
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Detection of pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus in central Iraq using Real-time PCR
... Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from 2222 patients with a clinical suspicion of having (H1N1) virus infection from central Iraq provinces (Baghdad, Babylon, Diyala, Wasit and Anbar) from January to ...
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Factors affecting SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic, including Zoonotic, Human Transmission and Chain of Infection. Reducing Public health Risk by Serum Antibody Testing, Avoiding Screening in Unhygienic Places and False PCR Reporting. A Scientific Review
... eventually lessen virus transmission and reduce the pathogen's long-term survival and provide humoral herd immunity up to several years. Hence, seropositivity with diverse antibodies develops against mutating SARS- CoVs ...
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A Pyrosequencing Based Approach to High Throughput Identification of Influenza A(H3N2) Virus Clades Harboring Antigenic Drift Variants
... (throat swabs, nasal swabs and washes, nasopharyngeal swabs, and sputum specimens) (n ⫽ 27) that were collected between 1 October 2013 and 1 July 2015 in the United States and other countries ...
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Effect of Swab Composition and Use of Swabs versus Swab Containing Skim Milk Tryptone Glucose Glycerol (STGG) on Culture or PCR Based Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Simulated and Clinical Respiratory Specimens in STGG Transport Medium
... alginate swabs, the culture of the swabs yielded a statistically significant ...alginate swabs in STGG medium despite vigorous vor- texing or overnight incubation, yet the transfer of viable bac- ...
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Rapid and Specific Detection of Amantadine Resistant Influenza A Viruses with a Ser31Asn Mutation by the Cycling Probe Method
... using nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with influenza-like and other respiratory illnesses and virus isolates, the specificity and the sensitivity of the cycling probe method were ...both ...
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Recovering Streptococci from the Throat, a Practical Alternative to Direct Plating in Remote Tropical Communities
... paired swabs were processed in one of four ...(20 swabs per bag) with a packet of silica gel desiccant and transported back to the laboratory in a cold ...Duplicate swabs were transported at ambient ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of the BDProbeTec ET System for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Urine Specimens, Female Endocervical Swabs, and Male Urethral Swabs
... Urine was collected from 675 men, 145 (21.5%) of whom were identified as infected with C. trachomatis (Table 1). Ure- thral culture detected 112 (77.2%) of the infected patients. The prevalence ranged from 10.0 to 28.6% ...
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Molecular Diagnostics Update for the Emerging (If Not Already Widespread) Sexually Transmitted Infection Agent Mycoplasma genitalium: Just About Ready for Prime Time
... The field of molecular diagnostics, particularly in the last 8 to 10 years, has strived to fulfill an unmet clinical need with respect to this fastidious organism. Differences in M. genitalium prevalence exist throughout ...
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Comparing Nose-Throat Swabs and Nasopharyngeal Aspirates Collected From Children With Symptoms for Respiratory Virus Identification Using Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
... specimen type used in that study was a parent-collected combined nose-throat swab (NTS). It was beyond the scope of that study to include a head-to-head compari- son of the NTS with nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPAs) ...
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The upper respiratory tract microbiome of hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia of unknown aetiology: a pilot study
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Comparative Analysis of Monkeypox Virus Infection of Cynomolgus Macaques by the Intravenous or Intrabronchial Inoculation Route
... Monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection has recently expanded in geographic distribution and can be fatal in up to 10% of cases. The intravenous (i.v.) inoculation of nonhuman primates (NHPs) results in an accelerated fulminant ...
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Comparison of Polyurethane Foam to Nylon Flocked Swabs for Collection of Secretions from the Anterior Nares in Performance of a Rapid Influenza Virus Antigen Test in a Pediatric Emergency Department
... Posterior nasopharyngeal (NP) swab collections have been shown to be superior to swabs of the anterior nares (AN) for sample collection in such antigen tests (3); however, NP swab samples are uncomfortable ...
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Nasopharyngeal carriage rate of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Ugandan children with sickle cell disease
... where nasopharyngeal carriage is the determinant for invasive pneumococcal disease in HbSS patients ...high nasopharyngeal carriage rates of pneumococci and ...
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Two-Dimensional Analysis of the Size of Nasopharynx and Adenoids in Non-Syndromic Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Using Lateral Cephalograms
... nasopharynx, nasopharyngeal airway and adenoids were outlined on lateral cephalograms and their surface area was calculated and compared between the two ...
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Imaging Appearance of Dextranomer/Hyaluronic Acid Copolymer Implant Injections for Treatment of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency
... These findings are important to recognize to distinguish the normal postoperative imaging appearance of dextranomer/hy- aluronic acid copolymer injections from nasopharyngeal pathol- ogy. Because VPI is associated ...
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