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American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 7(59), 2021
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.02304-20
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A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Upper Airway Swab Collection for Detection of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens by Individuals or Caregivers Compared to Health Care Workers
Journal article published in 2021 by
Ciara Harrison 
,
Daniel E. Lindholm ,
Andrew C. Steer ,
Joshua Osowicki
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Daniel E. Lindholm ,
Andrew C. Steer ,
Joshua Osowicki
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Abstract
Self- or caregiver collection of upper airway swabs reduces infectious exposures of health care workers (HCWs) and the need to redeploy clinical staff to testing roles. We aimed to determine whether self- or caregiver collection has adequate diagnostic performance for detection of viral and bacterial upper airway pathogens.