Evaluation of faecal occult blood test and lactoferrin latex agglutination test in screening hospitalized patients for diagnosing inflammatory and non-inflammatory diarrhoea in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 256-261

  Ashraf, Hasan ^a,c   Beltinger, Johannes ^b   Alam, Nur Haque ^a   Bardhan, Pradip Kumar ^a   Faruque, Abu Syed Golam ^a   Akter, Jesmin ^a   Salam, Mohammed Abdus ^a   Gyr, Niklaus ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Faecal occult blood test; Infectious diarrhoea; Lactoferrin latex agglutination test

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DIARRHEA; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NONINFLAMMATORY DIARRHEA; OCCULT BLOOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOFERRIN; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 40449100021     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113042     Document Type: Article

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