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Letter to the editor
Received 28 April 2016
Accepted for publication 12 May 2016
Published 8 August 2016 Volume 2016:8 Pages 295—296
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S111574
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Editor who approved publication: Professor Vera Ehrenstein
Annika Linde, Amelie Plymoth
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
It was with great interest that we noticed that other researchers are also interested in participant-collected nasal swabs to detect pathogens in acute respiratory infections, and we welcome the findings presented in the study by Vargas et al.1
Of importance is that already in the beginning of 2015, we showed in our research work that nasal self-sampling is feasible in large-scale surveillance of respiratory infections.2
View the original paper by Vargas and colleagues.
Disclosure
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this communication.
References
Vargas CY, Wang L, Castellanos de Belliard Y, et al. Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population. Clin Epidemiol. 2016;8:1–5. | ||
Plymoth A, Rotzén-Östlund M, Zweygberg-Wirgart B, Sundin CG, Ploner A, Nyrén O, Linde A. Self-sampling for analysis of respiratory viruses in a large-scale epidemiological study in Sweden. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(11):pii 21063. | ||
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