Fig 1.
Flow chart of systematic review process.
Table 1.
Excluded studies with reasons.
Table 2.
Characteristics of included studies.
Fig 2.
Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies II.
Fig 3.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue x ELISA.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 4.
RoC curve for all three comparisons conducted in the study.
A = Dengue x ELISA; B = Dengue fever x ELISA, C = Dengue haemorrhagic fever x ELISA.
Fig 5.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue Fever x ELISA.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 6.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue Haemorragic Fever x ELISA.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 7.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue x ELISA in children and adolescents aged from 6 months to 15 years.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 8.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue x ELISA cut-off points reported ≥20 petechiae per one square inch.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 9.
Forest plot for individual studies and pooled sensitivity and specificity for Dengue x ELISA removing six studies with high risk for selection bias.
Q: chi-squared statistic; df: degrees of freedom; I2: inconsistency of studies’ results; Dashed line means the mean number found across studies.
Fig 10.
Publication bias presentation using funnel plot for Dengue x ELISA.