Throat swabs
Rapid PCR detection of group a streptococcus from flocked throat swabs: A retrospective clinical study
... from throat specimens may be useful for patient management, both ensuring that patients with GAS pharyngitis are treated quickly and also avoiding unnecessary use of antibiotics in those without GAS ...from ...
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Detection of Meningococcal Carriage by Culture and PCR of Throat Swabs and Mouth Gargles
... of throat swabs on selective media, but the levels of carriage determined depend heavily on the skills of the individuals taking the swab and inter- preting the ...carriage. Throat swabs and ...
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Comparison of Four Methods Using Throat Swabs To Confirm Rubella Virus Infection
... In China, 331 subnational laboratories were established and a laboratory surveillance network was started in 2000. Consid- erable testing for rubella virus occurs in the surveillance net- work, partly because measles ...
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Comparison of LightCycler PCR, Rapid Antigen Immunoassay, and Culture for Detection of Group A Streptococci from Throat Swabs
... 322 throat swab specimens that were negative for GAS had melting curves compatible with group C or group G strepto- ...from throat swabs, we noted that 2.8% of all swabs negative for GAS had ...
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Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Automated Aries Group A Strep PCR Assay from Throat Swabs
... deidentified throat swab specimens from subjects presenting with pharyngitis at four geographically diverse ...Fresh throat swab specimens from both male and female patients were collected from January 2017 ...
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Specificity study of kits for detection of group A streptococci directly from throat swabs
... A total of 78 Streptococcus strains, 15 Staphylococcus strains, and 2 Stomatococcus strains were used to test the specificity of 18 different antigen detection systems for group A strept[r] ...
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HLA-Cw*0602 associates with a twofold higher prevalence of positive streptococcal throat swab at the onset of psoriasis: a case control study
... Psoriasis is phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous and associates with various environmental triggers. Gene- environment interactions are relevant for complex dis- eases [1,2]; for example, smoking influences ...
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Development of a Transcription Reverse Transcription Concerted Reaction Method for Specific Detection of Human Enterovirus 71 from Clinical Specimens
... FIG 1 A TRCR method for the detection of EV71 from clinical specimens. (A) Procedure and a primer-probe set for the TRCR method. Viral RNA and TRCR reagents and enzymes were preincubated at 43°C for 5 min and 2 min, ...
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Study on Clinical Profile of Swine flu (H1N1) in a tertiary care hospital
... collecting throat Swabs and doing RT-PCR for H1N1in Regional Medical Reseach Center Bhubaneswar (Authorised centre from state and National Government) were included in ...cough/sore throat with or ...
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Upper Airways Microbiota in Antibiotic-Naïve Wheezing and Healthy Infants from the Tropics of Rural Ecuador.
... and removal of OTUs present in only one sample a total of 76,627 sequences remained (37,235 in cases and 39,392 in controls). Between 969 and 6269 sequences were obtained per sample. In order to control sample ...
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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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Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis of PCR Amplified gki Genes: a New Technique for Tracking Streptococci
... gki-PCR-DGGE technique. To simplify the extremely time- consuming procedure of conventional culturing and molecular typing, a specific PCR targeting the gki gene was developed, which was used in combination with DGGE ...
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Detection of a novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in humans by multiplex one step real time RT PCR assay
... Different clinical specimens from the 35 hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed H7N9 infections were tested with the two assays. The results showed that the multiplex assay and the WHO-recommended assays did not ...
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Aseptic meningitis and encephalitis: the role of PCR in the diagnostic laboratory
... The main reasons to identify the causative organisms in cases of aseptic meningitis and encephalitis are (i) to provide a rational basis for chemotherapy and prognosis, (ii) to limit unnecessary investigations, and (iii) ...
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Nested Duplex PCR To Detect Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis and Its Application in Diagnosis of Pertussis in Nonmetropolitan Southeast Queensland, Australia
... (30.1%) throat swabs were positive by PCR compared to 2 of 71 ...(2.8%) throat swabs positive by culture, indicating that a reassessment of the use of throat swabs should be ...
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Applicability of Oral Fluid Collected onto Filter Paper for Detection and Genetic Characterization of Measles Virus Strains
... Patients and specimens. Patients with clinical evidence of measles were iden- tified by general practitioners as part of an enhanced measles surveillance strat- egy operating in Victoria, Australia, since 1997 (16). ...
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HERPANGINA: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY ASPECTS OF AN OUTBREAK CAUSED BY GROUP A COXSACKIE VIRUSES
... Coxsackie group A viruses of three different immunologic types were isolated from stools or throat swabs, or both, obtained from 17 of the 21 patients involved in the. outbreaks[r] ...
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How does poliomyelitis virus enter
... The second approach to the problem was based on the fact that although virus had been detected in the throat, in throat washings, and throat swabs, there was no evidence that virus could[r] ...
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Some Immunological Aspects of Iraqi Influenza A Virus Infections
... The aim of this study was to detect the influenza A virus infection in Iraqi patients by r RT-PCR and evaluate the interleukin IL-1α and IL-6. Also in order to investigate the expression of CRP in nasopharyngeal wash and ...
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Development and Evaluation of a Novel Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
... (15 throat washes, 13 throat swabs, and 21 combined throat and nasal swabs) collected from patients admitted to the Hanoi-French and Ninhbinh hospitals in Vietnam during the SARS ...
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