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cord-312024-qdgqif5j	Talbot, H. Keipp	The Diagnosis of Viral Respiratory Disease in Older Adults	2010-02-01		.txt	text/plain	3423	175	39	The increasing availability of new rapid and sensitive molecular diagnostics such as polymerase chain reaction testing, should provide more accurate and timely diagnoses of viral respiratory infections in older adults in the near future. This article summarizes what is known about the diagnosis of viral respiratory diseases in elderly adults, with the hope of increasing understanding of the utility and limitations of the currently available diagnostic tests for viral respiratory pathogens, such as culture, rapid antigen testing, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, and serologic analysis. Compared with previous studies that have used viral culture for diagnosis, studies using PCR have more accurately detected the presence of viruses (including influenza virus, RSV, hMPV, parainfluenza virus, rhinoviruses, and coronaviruses) in the lower respiratory tract illness in older adults [5, 13, 31, 36, 40, 42] .	./cache/cord-312024-qdgqif5j.txt	./txt/cord-312024-qdgqif5j.txt