Poor Sensitivity of Stool Culture Compared to Polymerase Chain Reaction in Surveillance for Vibrio cholerae in Haiti, 2018–2019

We report on the sensitivity and specificity of stool culture compared to polymerase chain reaction for detecting Vibrio cholerae in Haiti during the waning period of the initial outbreak in 2018–2019. We found that stool culture (with a sensitivity of 33.3% and specificity of 97.4%) may not be suff...

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Autores principales: Guillaume, Yodeline, Debela, Meti, Slater, Damien, Vissieres, Kenia, Ternier, Ralph, Franke, Molly F, Harris, Jason B, Ivers, Louise C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10296062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37383250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad301
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Sumario:We report on the sensitivity and specificity of stool culture compared to polymerase chain reaction for detecting Vibrio cholerae in Haiti during the waning period of the initial outbreak in 2018–2019. We found that stool culture (with a sensitivity of 33.3% and specificity of 97.4%) may not be sufficiently robust in this context.

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