Comparison of Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs for the Diagnosis of Eight Respiratory Viruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays

• Curi Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Curi Kim, Jamal A. Ahmed

  Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jamal A. Ahmed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Curi Kim, Jamal A. Ahmed

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Rachel B. Eidex,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Raymond Nyoka,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Lilian W. Waiboci,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Dean Erdman,

  Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Adan Tepo,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Abdirahman S. Mahamud,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Wamburu Kabura,

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Margaret Nguhi,

  Affiliation International Rescue Committee, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Philip Muthoka,

  Affiliation Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Wagacha Burton,

  Affiliation United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Robert F. Breiman,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• M. Kariuki Njenga,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Mark A. Katz

  * E-mail: mkatz@ke.cdc.gov

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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