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

Kamrul Islam; Md. Abu Sayeed; Emran Hossen; Farhana Khanam; Richelle C. Charles; Jason Andrews; Edward T. Ryan; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004558

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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

Kamrul Islam,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Abu Sayeed,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Emran Hossen,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Farhana Khanam,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Richelle C. Charles,

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jason Andrews,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Edward T. Ryan ,

¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Firdausi Qadri

* E-mail: fqadri@icddrb.org

¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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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

Kamrul Islam,
Md. Abu Sayeed,
Emran Hossen,
Farhana Khanam,
Richelle C. Charles,
Jason Andrews,
Edward T. Ryan,
Firdausi Qadri

Published: April 8, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004558

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