Effectiveness of Self-Collected, Ambient Temperature–Preserved Nasal Swabs Compared to Samples Collected by Trained Staff for Genotyping of Respiratory Viruses by Shotgun RNA Sequencing: Comparative Study

Raymond Soto   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Litty Paul   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Christina A Porucznik   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Heng Xie   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Rita Czako Stinnett   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Benjamin Briggs   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Matthew Biggerstaff   ^{3 *} , ScD ;   Joseph Stanford   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Robert Schlaberg   ^{1, 2 *} , MD

¹ Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

² IDbyDNA, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

³ Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

*all authors contributed equally