Evaluation of the point-of-care Becton Dickinson Veritor™ Rapid influenza diagnostic test in Kenya, 2013–2014

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• 作者：Linus K. Ndegwa ; Gideon Emukule ; Timothy M. Uyeki ; Eunice Mailu…
• 关键词：Influenza ; Rapid influenza test ; Sensitivity and specificity ; Kenya
• 刊名：BMC Infectious Diseases
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：2523KB
• 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Parasitology; Medical Microbiology; Tropical Medicine; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2334
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundWe evaluated the performance of the Becton Dickinson Veritor™ System Flu A + B rapid influenza diagnostic test (RIDT) to detect influenza viruses in respiratory specimens from patients enrolled at five surveillance sites in Kenya, a tropical country where influenza seasonality is variable.