Detection of Respiratory Viruses by PCR Assay of Nasopharyngeal Swabs Stored in Skim Milk-Tryptone-Glucose-Glycerol Transport Medium
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- 1 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (6) , 2311-2313
Abstract
We analyzed 129 paired nasopharyngeal aspirates (stored in viral transport medium [VTM]) and nasopharyngeal swabs (stored in skim milk-tryptone-glucose-glycerol [STGG] bacterial transport and storage medium) using PCRs to detect adenoviruses, influenza virus A or B, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Overall, swabs stored in STGG medium without antimicrobials were found to be an acceptable alternative to aspirates stored in antimicrobial-containing VTM, with PCR agreement of 90.2% (kappa of 0.8).Keywords
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