Comparison of participant-collected nasal and staff-collected oropharyngeal specimens for human ribonuclease P detection with RT-PCR during a community-based study

• Mitchell T. Arnold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell T. Arnold, Jonathan L. Temte, Amra Uzicanin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mtarnold@wisc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1859-8317

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• Jonathan L. Temte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell T. Arnold, Jonathan L. Temte, Amra Uzicanin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Shari K. Barlow ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Cristalyne J. Bell ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Maureen D. Goss ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Emily G. Temte ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Mary M. Checovich ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Erik Reisdorf ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Samantha Scott ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Kyley Guenther ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Mary Wedig ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Peter Shult ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Amra Uzicanin

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell T. Arnold, Jonathan L. Temte, Amra Uzicanin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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