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SUBMITTER: Pfau B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10865831 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20231222 2
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred the development of innovative solutions for specimen collection and molecular detection for large-scale community testing. Among these developments is the <i>RHINOstic</i> nasal swab, a plastic anterior nares swab built into the cap of a standard matrix tube that facilitates automated processing of up to 96 specimens at a time. In a study of unsupervised self-collection utilizing these swabs, we demonstrate comparable analytic performance and shipping stability comp ...[more]