Latent class analysis permits unbiased estimates of the validity of DAT for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 395-401

  Boelaert, Marleen ^a   El Safi, Sayda ^b   Goetghebeur, Els ^b   Gomes Pereira, Sandra ^b   Le Ray, Dominique ^a   Van Der Stuyft, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Direct agglutination test; Latent class analysis; Sensitivity; Specificity; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARASITOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SUDAN;

EID: 0033019432     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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