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Comparative Study
. 2008 Jun;46(6):2081-2.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00048-08. Epub 2008 Apr 2.

Comparison of nasal swabs with nose blowing for community-based pneumococcal surveillance of healthy children

Amanda Jane Leach  1 , Elizabeth Stubbs, Kim Hare, Jemima Beissbarth, Peter Stanley Morris
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Comparative Study

Comparison of nasal swabs with nose blowing for community-based pneumococcal surveillance of healthy children

Amanda Jane Leach et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Jun.

Abstract

The nasopharynx (NP) is the preferred site for detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in young children, but NP sampling is not well tolerated. We compared nose blowing with paired nasal swabs. The sensitivity of nose blowing was 46% (95% confidence interval [CI] 38 to 56%), which increased to 94% (95% CI, 85 to 98%) for children with visible secretions.

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