Rapid diagnostic tests for typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever.
CONCLUSIONS: In 37 studies that evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of RDTs for enteric fever, few studies were at a low risk of bias. The three main RDT tests and variants had moderate diagnostic accuracy. There was no evidence of a difference between the average sensitivity and specificity of the three main RDT tests. More robust evaluations of alternative RDTs for enteric fever are needed.
PMID: 28545155 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Wijedoru L, Mallett S, Parry CM Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research
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