Why the study?
Does a real-time NASBA assay improve the detection of influenza A compared to traditional cell culture and immunofluorescence in clinical respiratory samples?
Population
389 clinical respiratory samples from two patient groups during the 2003/2004 influenza season
Comparison
Real-time nucleic acid sequence based… vs Traditional laboratory techniques
Design
Other
Authors
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May support NASBA for sensitive influenza detection in respiratory samples; leaves open clinical outcome validation before routine adoption.
Does a real-time NASBA assay improve the detection of influenza A compared to traditional cell culture and immunofluorescence in clinical respiratory samples?
A real-time NASBA assay demonstrates superior sensitivity for detecting influenza A compared to traditional cell culture and immunofluorescence methods.
Moore et al. (2004) studied this question.
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