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.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Kamrul Islam (مؤلف), Md Abu Sayeed (مؤلف), Emran Hossen (مؤلف), Farhana Khanam (مؤلف), Richelle C Charles (مؤلف), Jason Andrews (مؤلف), Edward T Ryan (مؤلف), Firdausi Qadri (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: 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...