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cord-307758-a4sgt66g	Hong, Ching-Ye	Acute respiratory symptoms in adults in general practice	2004-06-17		.txt	text/plain	3927	241	56	Community studies have shown that ∼30% of patients with acute respiratory tract symptoms have no identifiable infective aetiology. The purpose of this study was to determine the infective aetiology in patients who presented to primary care doctors with acute respiratory symptoms. Data collection was through interview using structured questionnaire, physical examination, throat swabs for bacterial culture and nasal swabs for virus identification by immunofluorescence (IF) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The main objective of our study was therefore to determine the aetiological cause in patients who presented with acute respiratory symptoms in nine primary care clinics in Singapore, using bacterial culture, IF and PCR. To our knowledge, this is the first practice-based study on the aetiological diagnosis of a large group of patients presenting with URTI in primary care clinics in Asia, using IF and PCR as identification methods.	./cache/cord-307758-a4sgt66g.txt	./txt/cord-307758-a4sgt66g.txt