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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 9, Pages 3340-3342Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02235-09
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We developed and evaluated flocked nasal midturbinate swabs obtained from 55 asymptomatic and 108 symptomatic volunteers. Self-collected swabs obtained from asymptomatic volunteers yielded numbers of respiratory epithelial cells comparable to those of staff-collected nasal (n = 55) or nasopharyngeal (n = 20) swabs. Specific viruses were detected in swabs self-collected by 42/108 (38.9%) symptomatic volunteers by multiplex PCR.
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