Comparing Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing of Nasopharyngeal Swab and Lower Respiratory Tract Specimens for the Diagnosis of

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia nasopharyngeal swab specimen specimen quality test performance

Journal

Open forum infectious diseases
ISSN: 2328-8957
Titre abrégé: Open Forum Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101637045

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 21 11 2023
accepted: 31 01 2024
medline: 6 3 2024
pubmed: 6 3 2024
entrez: 6 3 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Using nasopharyngeal (NP) swab samples instead of lower respiratory tract specimens for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to diagnose

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae071 PMID: 38444816 PMC: PMC10913836
pubmed: 38444816
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae071
pii: ofae071
pmc: PMC10913836
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

ofae071

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Potential conflicts of interest. All authors: No reported conflicts.

Auteurs

Rusheng Chew (R)

Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mathematical and Economic Modelling Department, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8992-4474

Sarah Tozer (S)

Central Laboratory, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia.

Kimberly Ulett (K)

Department of Medicine, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Gold Coast, Australia.

David L Paterson (DL)

Central Laboratory, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia.
UQ Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

David Whiley (D)

UQ Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Theo Sloots (T)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

David Fielding (D)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Christopher Zappala (C)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Farzad Bashirzadeh (F)

Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Justin Hundloe (J)

Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Cheryl Bletchley (C)

Central Laboratory, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia.

Marion L Woods (ML)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

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