Comparison of throat and nasopharyngeal swab specimens for culture diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis infection
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 25 (6) , 1109-1110
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.25.6.1109-1110.1987
Abstract
During a 9-month period, we evaluated the relative sensitivity of throat and nasopharyngeal swab cultures for isolation of Bordetella pertussis. Of 38 pertussis cases, 36 (95%) had positive nasopharyngeal cultures, while only 16 of 36 (44%) had positive throat cultures. There were no cases of nasopharyngeal-negative, throat-positive cultures. The sensitivity of the direct fluorescent-antibody test was 70% when compared with culture.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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