Rapid detection of early typhoid fever in endemic community children by the TUBEX® O9-antibody test

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-281

  Rahman, Mahbubur ^a   Siddique, Abul Kasem ^b   Tam, Frankie Chi Hang ^c   Sharmin, Sabrina ^a   Rashid, Harunur ^a   Iqbal, Anwarul ^b   Ahmed, Sirajuddin ^b   Nair, Gopinath Balkrish ^a   Chaignat, Claire Lise ^d   Lim, Pak Leong ^c  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunodiagnosis; Infectious disease; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

09 ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; COLORIMETRY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SERUM; TYPHOID FEVER; WIDAL REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STATISTICS; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 34347332190     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.01.010     Document Type: Article

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