More evidence needed before upper respiratory tract point-of-care microbiological testing for respiratory infections is used in primary care

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Dec;30(12):1497-1499. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.09.002. Epub 2024 Sep 7.

Authors

Beth Stuart¹, Alastair D Hay²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
² Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. Electronic address: alastair.hay@bristol.ac.uk.

PMID: 39251132
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.09.002

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute respiratory infection; Antibiotics; Antimicrobial resistance; Microbiology; Point-of-care test; Primary.