Table 3.
Results of the viral culture/immunofluorescence and multiplex PCR in patients with two or more serial specimens.
| Patient | 1st specimen |
2nd specimen |
3rd specimen |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culture | Multiplex-PCR | Culture | Multiplex-PCR | Culture | Multiplex-PCR | |
| 1 | RSV | RSV-A | RSV | RSV-A | Negative | RSV-A |
| 2 | RSV | RSV-A | RSV | RSV-A | RSV | RSV-A |
| 3 | Negative | Negative | Negative | PIV-1, RSV-A | nd | nd |
| 4 | Negative | Negative | Negative* | Negative* | nd | nd |
| 5 | Negative | RSV-A | Negative | RSV-A | nd | nd |
| 6 | PIV-1 | PIV-1 | PIV-1 | PIV-1, RSV-A | nd | nd |
nd, not done.
*
All the specimens were bronchial washing fluid, except the 2nd specimen of the Patient 4, which was pleural fluid.