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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...
Autores principales: | Guillaume, Yodeline, Debela, Meti, Slater, Damien, Vissieres, Kenia, Ternier, Ralph, Franke, Molly F, Harris, Jason B, Ivers, Louise C |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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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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