Whooping Cough
Study results from V. Caro and colleagues broaden understanding of whooping cough
Published in Hospital Business Week, November 15th, 2009
"With the support of a ministerial program for innovative and expensive technologies, dedicated to the economic evaluation of laboratory diagnosis of pertussis by real-time PCR, external quality assessment for real-time IS481 PCR was carried out. Coordinated by the National Centre of Reference of Pertussis and other Bordetelloses (NCR), this study aimed to harmonize and to assess the performances of eight participating microbiology hospital laboratories throughout the French territory," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology report.
"Between January 2006 and February 2007, 10 proficiency panels were sent by the NCR (ascending proficiency...
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