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The Relationship Between Blood Sample Volume and Diagnostic Sensitivity of Blood Culture for Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Blood culture is the standard diagnostic method for typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever in surveillance studies and clinical trials, but sensitivity is widely acknowledged to be suboptimal. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine sources of heterogeneity across...

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Autores principales: Antillon, Marina, Saad, Neil J, Baker, Stephen, Pollard, Andrew J, Pitzer, Virginia E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6226661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30307563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy471