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cord-317912-v2wovcqd	Akmatov, Manas K.	Equivalence of Self- and Staff-Collected Nasal Swabs for the Detection of Viral Respiratory Pathogens	2012-11-14		.txt	text/plain	3488	176	57	found similar detection rates for respiratory pathogens between self-and staffcollected midturbinate swabs when one staff-collected and one selfcollected swab were taken from opposite nostrils during the same visit to a campus health center [5] . In the study center, a trained staff member (A.G.) obtained a nasal swab (regular flocked swab, Copan, Brescia, Italy, product number 359C) from the participant's left nostril and instructed him/her how to perform a self-swab. Sensitivity and specificity of self-collected swabs, obtained in the study center, to detect viral respiratory pathogens (compared to staff-collected swabs)*. The detection of a viral pathogen was independent of the amount of b-actin DNA in both staff-and self-swabs collected on day 1 (Fig. 4) . This prospective study comparing staff-and self-collected nasal swabs for the detection of ARI pathogens clearly demonstrated the validity of self-swabbing; specifically, self-swabbing was not inferior in terms of acceptance, satisfaction, sample adequacy, and viral detection rate.	./cache/cord-317912-v2wovcqd.txt	./txt/cord-317912-v2wovcqd.txt