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- Title
Validation of self-swab for virologic confirmation of influenza virus infections in a community setting.
- Authors
Ip, Dennis K M; Schutten, Martin; Fang, Vicky J; Fung, Rita O P; Dutkowski, Regina T; Chan, Kwok-Hung; Leung, Gabriel M; Peiris, J S Malik; Cowling, Benjamin J
- Abstract
Few studies have investigated the validity of self-collected nose and throat swabs for influenza confirmation in community settings. We followed outpatients with confirmed influenza with sequential measurement of viral loads and applied log-linear regression models to the viral shedding patterns. Among 176 outpatients with confirmed influenza, the detection of virus and quantitative viral loads obtained from self-swabs was consistent with statistical predictions based on earlier and later measurements, suggesting that self-collected nose and throat swabs can be a valid alternative for virologic confirmation of influenza A or B infection in a community setting.
- Publication
The Journal of infectious diseases, 2012, Vol 205, Issue 4, p631
- ISSN
1537-6613
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jir803