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George Becker
Researcher at North Shore-LIJ Health System
Publications - 1
Citations - 368
George Becker is an academic researcher from North Shore-LIJ Health System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Viral culture & Virus. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 362 citations.
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Evaluation of multiple test methods for the detection of the novel 2009 influenza A (H1N1) during the New York City outbreak.
Christine C. Ginocchio,Frank Zhang,Ryhana Manji,Suman Arora,Mark Bornfreund,Leon Falk,Madhavi Lotlikar,Margaret Kowerska,George Becker,Diamanto D. Korologos,Marcella De Geronimo,James M. Crawford +11 more
TL;DR: The RVP test provided the best diagnostic option as RVP demonstrated superior sensitivity for the detection of all influenza strains, including the novel H1N1, provided accurate influenza A subtyping and identified a significant number of additional respiratory pathogens.