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Nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPA)
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Specimens collected from ill patients for testing.
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Bronchoalveolar lavage
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Specimens collected from ill patients for testing.
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Bronchial washings
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Specimens collected from ill patients for testing.
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Culture-amplified direct fluorescent assay
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Diagnostic assay to detect common microbial respiratory pathogens.
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RT-PCR
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Diagnostic assay to detect common microbial respiratory pathogens such as HRSV, human adenoviruses, HPIV-1, 2 and 3 and influenza viruses A and B.
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Selective culture media
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To isolate bacterial pathogens including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus species, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria species, Staphylococcus species, Legionella pneumophila, and Candida albicans.
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Single-tube RT-PCR and PCR amplifications (OneStep RT-PCR and HotStarTaq kits, QIAGEN)
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To detect and amplify viral genetic material from specimens.
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Primers
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To target specific genes in the pan-HCoV, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-OC43, and HBoV assays.
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QIAquick (QIAGEN, Australia)
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To purify the amplicon directly from the reaction mixture.
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ABI PRISM BigDye cycle sequencing kit (Perkin Elmer Applied Biosystems Division, USA)
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To perform nucleotide sequencing reactions on both strands of the amplicon.
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Applied Biosystems 3130 ×l capillary electrophoresis (CE) genetic analyser
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To determine nucleotide sequences.
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