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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 189, Issue 4, Pages 706-710Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/381456
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- ODCDC CDC HHS [U38/CCU 417958, U38/CCU 217969] Funding Source: Medline
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We compared the rates of detection of respiratory viruses by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and by conventional viral culture in 668 combined nasal and throat samples from a prospective, multicenter, population-based study of acute respiratory tract infections among hospitalized children aged <5 years. RT-PCR increased the yield of viral identification by 2-fold, compared with that of culture alone. The increased sensitivity of viral detection by RT-PCR will yield better estimates of the population burden of viral respiratory infections.
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