Assessing the diagnostic accuracy of PCR-based detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from nasopharyngeal swabs collected for viral studies in Canadian adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a Serious Outcomes Surveillance (SOS) Network of the Canadian Immunization Research (CIRN) study
Conclusions
While further optimisation may be needed to increase the sensitivity of PCR-based detection, its high specificity suggests there is a value for pneumococcal surveillance. With many laboratories archiving specimens for influenza virus surveillance, this specimen type could provide a non-culture-based method for pneumococcal surveillance.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Gillis, H. D., Lang, A. L. S., ElSherif, M., Martin, I., Hatchette, T. F., McNeil, S. A., LeBlanc, J. J., on behalf of the Serious Outcomes Surveillance (SOS) Network of the Canadian Immunization Research (CIRN) Tags: Open access, Research methods Source Type: research
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