Microscopic Review of Nasopharyngeal Swabs as a Means of Benchside Quality Assurance.

Objective: Nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) are the collection modality of choice for reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) multiplex array for respiratory viruses. NPS gather both extracellular material and human respiratory epithelial cells and, when used with RT-PCR, have reliable sensitivity for detection of viral infection.

Goals: At our institution, we identified a 1.

Association Between Exposure of Ipratropium and Salmeterol and Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis: A Matched Case-control Study.

Purpose: Ipratropium and salmeterol were found to stimulate oligodendrocyte differentiation in a high-throughput drug screening assay; thus, they may play a role in the risk reduction of multiple sclerosis (MS). So far, they have not been examined in any clinical data. This study aims at investigating the association between ipratropium and salmeterol and reduced diagnosis of MS with the use of real-world clinical data.