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. 2003 Jan;41(1):149–154. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.1.149-154.2003

TABLE 2.

Comparison of culture, IF, and real-time RT-PCR for detection of RSV A and B in 175 clinical specimens

No. of samples Resulta
Culture IF TaqMan PCR
RSV A RSV B
5 + + +
15 + + +
1 + +
4 + +
8 + +
3 +
139
a

+, positive; −, negative. The total numbers positive were as follows: culture, 21; IF, 32; TaqMan PCR, 10 (RSV A) and 26 (RSV B).