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The test involves a nasal swab with a blood test for antibodies.
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Three nasal swab specimens were obtained 1 month apart on entering the study.
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Methods: All patients received a nasal swab at admission.
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The testing, Dr Bloomfield understands, involved the nasal swab.
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It requires a sample taken by nasal swab be sent back to a lab for analysis.
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Slideshow (5 images) However, some locals declined the voluntary throat and nasal swab tests.
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Andrews said many parents had refused testing of their children because the nasal swab test was uncomfortable.
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Methods: Participants in this cross-sectional study were interviewed and provided a nasal swab for S. aureus analysis.
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Case patients and control subjects completed questionnaires and underwent collection of nasal swab samples for culture for MRSA.
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However the tests require an uncomfortable nasal swab and are not as accurate as the molecular, or PCR, tests.
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The nasal swab in particular looks so distressing we debated if we could even film one for a recent report.
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This is different from the current, sometimes hard-to-come-by diagnostic tests that draw on a nasal swab to confirm active infection.
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I underwent a nasal swab, which was very unpleasant, and you start thinking about how you start implementing that elsewhere.
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Highest viral titers were obtained from nasal swab samples, with lower titers found in the oral pharynx, penis or vagina.
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The CDC protocol involves a number of steps: First, a mucus sample is taken from a patient, usually by nasal swab.
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Improving this system would include rolling out far more nasal swab tests, administered by trained nursing staff in primary care centres.
