Consistency of influenza a virus detection test results across respiratory specimen collection methods using real-time reverse transcription-pcr

Abstract

In our prospective cohort study, we compared the performance of nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, and nasal swabs for the detection of influenza virus using real-time reverse transcription-PCR assay.Joint consideration of results from oropharyngeal and nasal swabs was as effective as consideration of results from nasopharyngeal swabs alone, as measured by sensitivity and noninferiority analysis © 2013, American Society for Microbiology.All Rights Reserved.