Field evaluation of a locally produced rapid diagnostic test for early detection of cholera in Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Md Taufiqul Islam (Author), Ashraful Islam Khan (Author), Md Abu Sayeed (Author), Jakia Amin (Author), Kamrul Islam (Author), Nur Alam (Author), Nishat Sultana (Author), Noor Jahan (Author), Md Mahbubur Rashid (Author), Zahid Hasan Khan (Author), Mazharul Islam Zion (Author), Mokibul Hassan Afrad (Author), Shah Alam Siddique (Author), Farhana Khanam (Author), Yasmin Ara Begum (Author), Muhammad Shariful Islam (Author), Firdausi Qadri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Cholera remains a substantial health burden in Asia and Africa particularly in resource poor settings. The standard procedures to identify the etiological organism V. cholerae are isolation from microbiological culture from stool as well as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Both the proces...