Nasopharingeal aspirate value in pediatric chronic lower respiratory tract illness
- Francesca Lunardi1,
- Stefania Edith Vuljan1,
- Egle Perissinotto1,
- Federica Pezzuto1,
- Sandro Malacrida2,
- Samuela Bugin3,
- Ilaria Bertozzi3,
- Deborah Snijders3,
- Stefania Rizzo1,
- Angelo Barbato3 and
- Fiorella Calabrese1
- 1Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- 3Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Fiorella Calabrese, Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School. Via A. Gabelli 61, 35121 Padova, Italy. E-mail: fiorella.calabrese{at}unipd.it
Abstract
NPA as a sensitive and specific surrogate tool for the detection of respiratory viruses in different forms of C/RLRTI
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Conflict of interest: Dr. LUNARDI has nothing to disclose.
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