Naats Testing At Non-Genital Sites – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Tuesday, March 13, 2012: 3:35 PM

Greenway Ballroom A/B/C

Peter Leone, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

This presentation will discuss:

The Good: the performance of NAATs for pharyngeal and rectal gonorrhea and chlamydia infection;

The Bad: the barrier of non-FDA indication usage; and,

The Ugly: the utility of self-collect specimens

B7.2 Naats Testing At Non-Genital Sites – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly