“…Nasopharyngeal (NP) or oropharyngeal (OP) swabs are collected from the first 10 ILI patients of each week and tested at the NYC Public Health Laboratory for influenza using the CDC real‐time RT‐PCR assay. Specimens collected from October 2011 through August 2014 were further tested for respiratory pathogens by the New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center using Taqman Array Card (TAC, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) that included influenza A virus (H1, H1N1pdm09, and H3), influenza B virus, adenovirus, coronaviruses (229E, HKu1, NL63, OC43), enterovirus, HMPV, HPIV types 1‐4, RSV, rhinovirus, Chlamydia pneumoniae , Mycoplasma pneumoniae , Bordetella pertussis , Haemophilus influenzae, Legionella pneumophila , Streptococcus pneumoniae , Streptococcus pyogenes . Discordant results in influenza virus testing between the CDC PCR testing kits and Taqman testing were assumed positive by any assay.…”