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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 11, Pages 4337-4339Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.11.4337-4339.2002
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To determine the usefulness of nasal swabs as a simple method for detection of respiratory viruses, we compared nasal swabs and nasopharyngeal aspirates obtained at the same time from the opposite nostrils of 230 children with upper respiratory infection. The sensitivity of nasal swabs was comparable to that of nasopharyngeal aspirates for the detection of all major respiratory viruses except respiratory syncytial virus.
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