Sampling Respiratory Epithelial Cells by Nasal or Nasopharyngeal Flocked Swabs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective: Nasal swab (NS) collection is less invasive than nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) collection, and may facilitate wider surveillance and diagnosis of respiratory viral infections. We studied NS collection of two new swab designs to determine whether NS could sample respiratory epithelial cells as well as NPS.

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Date

December 10, 2007

Conference or Journal

17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Munich, Germany, March 31-April 3rd, 2007

Author(s)

Santina Castriciano
Geoffrey So
Sonya Buracond
Mario Savarese
and Marek Smieja

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