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. 2000 Mar;7(2):312-3.
doi: 10.1128/CDLI.7.2.312-313.2000.

Clinical application of a dot blot test for diagnosis of enteric fever due to Salmonella enterica serovar typhi in patients with typhoid fever from Colombia and Peru

N Cardona-Castro  1 , E Gotuzzo, M Rodriguez, H Guerra
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Clinical application of a dot blot test for diagnosis of enteric fever due to Salmonella enterica serovar typhi in patients with typhoid fever from Colombia and Peru

N Cardona-Castro et al. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2000 Mar.

Abstract

Clinical application of a dot blot test to detect immunoglobulin G (IgG) (88% sensitivity and specificity) and IgM (12.1% sensitivity and 97% specificity) against flagellar antigen from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi was performed in Peruvian and Colombian patients with typhoid fever. This test can be used as a good predictor of serovar Typhi infection in regions lacking laboratory facilities and in field studies.

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