BD Veritor System Respiratory Syncytial Virus Rapid Antigen Detection Test: Point-of-Care Results in Primary Care Pediatric Offices Compared With Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction and Viral Culture Methods

During respiratory syncytial virus season, many children present to pediatric offices and urgent care medical facilities with cough, tachypnea, intercostal retraction, wheezing, as well as disturbed appetite and sleep. Identification of the responsible viral pathogen is quite difficult because sever...

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Published in:	Pediatric emergency care Vol. 31; no. 12; pp. 830 - 834
Main Authors:	Schwartz, Richard H, Selvarangan, Rangaraj, Zissman, Edward N
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.12.2015
Subjects:	Antigens, Viral - immunology Child Child, Preschool Female Humans Infant Male Nasopharynx - virology Point-of-Care Systems Predictive Value of Tests Primary Health Care Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections - diagnosis Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections - virology Respiratory Syncytial Viruses - isolation & purification Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods Sensitivity and Specificity Virus Cultivation - methods
ISSN:	1535-1815
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