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Table 2.

Distribution of patients according to the number of respiratory pathogens detected from different sample types (n = 469).

No. of pathogens detected	No. (%) of positive samples			P
No. of pathogens detected	OPS (n = 469)	NPS (n = 469)	HLS (n = 469)	P
Positive for at least one pathogen	271 (57.8)	310 (66.1)	298 (63.5)	0.028
1	267 (56.4)	288 (61.4)	285 (60.8)	0.323
2	4 (0.9)	22 (4.7)	12 (2.6)	0.001
3	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (0.2)	1.000

Abbreviations: OPS, oropharyngeal swab; NPS, nasopharyngeal swab; HLS, hock-a-loogie saliva.