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.

• Główni autorzy: Kamrul Islam (Autor), Md Abu Sayeed (Autor), Emran Hossen (Autor), Farhana Khanam (Autor), Richelle C Charles (Autor), Jason Andrews (Autor), Edward T Ryan (Autor), Firdausi Qadri (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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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. METHODOLOG...