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Changing Swabs: To Validate or Not To Validate?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 2013Publisher:American Society for MicrobiologyJournal:Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 51, pages 3,910-3,910 (issn: 0095-1137, eissn: 1098-660X,

Authors: Sheldon Campbell; J. Michael Miller; Michael J. Loeffelholz;

doi: 10.1128/jcm.02023-13

pmid: 24025900

pmc: PMC3889799

Changing Swabs: To Validate or Not To Validate?

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Abstract

A widely perceived requirement for validation of all new specimen collection swabs by the laboratory appears to be the result of misinformation. Neither the College of American Pathologists (CAP) nor regulations through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) address specifically the

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Keywords

Microbiological Techniques, Humans, Validation Studies as Topic, Specimen Handling

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