Under-detection of blood culture-positive enteric fever cases: The impact of missing data and methods for adjusting incidence estimates

BACKGROUND: In surveillance for typhoid fever, under-detection of cases occurs when patients with fever do not seek medical care, or seek medical care but do not receive a blood test. Missing data may result in incorrect estimates of disease incidence. METHODS: We used data from an ongoing randomise...

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Autores principales: Voysey, Merryn, Pant, Dikshya, Shakya, Mila, Liu, Xinxue, Colin-Jones, Rachel, Theiss-Nyland, Katherine, Smith, Nicola, Shrestha, Shrijana, Basnyat, Buddha, Pollard, Andrew J., Pitzer, Virginia E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6964825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31945052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007805

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6964825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31945052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007805

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