Concordance between RT-PCR-based detection of respiratory viruses from nasal swabs collected for viral testing and nasopharyngeal swabs collected for bacterial testing.

Grijalva CG, Griffin MR, Edwards KM, Johnson M, Gil AI, Verástegui H, Lanata CF, Williams JV. Concordance between RT-PCR-based detection of respiratory viruses from nasal swabs collected for viral testing and nasopharyngeal swabs collected for bacterial testing. Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. 2014 Jul;60(60). 309-12. PMID: 24875136 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4055503 NIHMSID: NIHMS591201.

Abstract

Epidemiologic studies of respiratory infections frequently rely on separate sample collections for the detection of bacteria and viruses. The requirement for two specimens presents cost, logistical, and acceptability challenges.