Evaluation of new-generation serologic tests for the diagnosis of typhoid fever: data from a community-based surveillance in Calcutta, India

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-365

  Dutta, Shanta ^a   Sur, Dipika ^a   Manna, Byomkesh ^a   Sen, Bhaswati ^a   Deb, Alok Kumar ^a   Deen, Jacqueline L ^b   Wain, John ^c   Von Seidlein, Lorenz ^b   Ochiai, Leon ^b   Clemens, John D ^b   Kumar Bhattacharya, Sujit ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Serologic tests; Typhoid fever; Widal

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FLAGELLAR ANTIBODY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; FIELD STUDY; FLAGELLUM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; INDIA; O ANTIGENS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TIME FACTORS; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33845316135     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.06.024     Document Type: Article

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