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Comparison of the Performance of the TPTest, Tubex, Typhidot and Widal Immunodiagnostic Assays and Blood Cultures in Detecting Patients with Typhoid Fever in Bangladesh, Including Using a Bayesian Latent Class Modeling Approach

BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need for an improved diagnostic assay for typhoid fever. In this current study, we compared the recently developed TPTest (Typhoid and Paratyphoid Test) with the Widal test, blood culture, and two commonly used commercially available kits, Tubex and Typhidot. METHODOLO...

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Autores principales: Islam, Kamrul, Sayeed, Md. Abu, Hossen, Emran, Khanam, Farhana, Charles, Richelle C., Andrews, Jason, Ryan, Edward T., Qadri, Firdausi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27058877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004558