Research Article

Comparison of Respiratory Pathogen Detection in Upper versus Lower Respiratory Tract Samples Using the BioFire FilmArray Respiratory Panel in the Immunocompromised Host

Table 3

Comparison of FilmArray Respiratory Panel using paired nasopharyngeal swab and BAL samples collected from immunocompromised hosts ().

Number (%) of NP swab samples with a FilmArray resultNumber (%) of BAL specimens with a FilmArray result
PositiveNegative

Positive19 (19.0)a8 (8.0)b
Negative5 (5.0)c68 (68.0)

BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; NP, nasopharyngeal; arhinovirus/enterovirus (), parainfluenza type 3 (), coronavirus HKU1 (), coronavirus NL63 (), parainfluenza type 1 (), human metapneumovirus (), Bordetella pertussis (), influenza A H3 (), coronavirus OC43 and rhinovirus/enterovirus (), and adenovirus, coronavirus 229E, and rhinovirus/enterovirus (); brhinovirus/enterovirus () and coronavirus HKU1 (); crhinovirus/enterovirus (), coronavirus HKU1 (), parainfluenza type 2 (), and respiratory syncytial virus ().