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Clin Infect Dis
; 46(1): 93-5, 2008 Jan 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18171219
ABSTRACT
We have developed a mask sampler for exhaled respiratory viruses. Among a group of 9 patients with cold symptoms who had virus-positive nasal mucus specimens, as analyzed by multiplexed polymerase chain reaction, virus-positive mask samples were obtained after coughing (20 times), talking (20 min), or breathing (20 min) from 6, 5, and 3 patients, respectively.
