At-home swabs diagnose infections as accurately as healthcare worker-collected swabs

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At-home swabs diagnose infections as accurately as healthcare worker-collected swabs

Self swabs and caregiver swabs are effective at detecting multiple pathogens and are just as accurate as those taken by healthcare workers, according to a team of Australian researchers. The research appears in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology.

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