%0 Journal Article
%T Comparison of Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of Eight Respiratory Viruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays
%A Curi Kim
%A Jamal A. Ahmed
%A Rachel B. Eidex
%A Raymond Nyoka
%A Lilian W. Waiboci
%A Dean Erdman
%A Adan Tepo
%A Abdirahman S. Mahamud
%A Wamburu Kabura
%A Margaret Nguhi
%A Philip Muthoka
%A Wagacha Burton
%A Robert F. Breiman
%A M. Kariuki Njenga
%A Mark A. Katz
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0021610
%X Many acute respiratory illness surveillance systems collect and test nasopharyngeal (NP) and/or oropharyngeal (OP) swab specimens, yet there are few studies assessing the relative measures of performance for NP versus OP specimens.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021610