Cholera Rapid Test with Enrichment Step Has Diagnostic Performance Equivalent to Culture.

Cholera Rapid Test with Enrichment Step Has Diagnostic Performance Equivalent to Culture.

Cholera rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) could play a central role in outbreak detection and surveillance in low-resource settings, but their modest performance has hindered their broad adoption. The addition of an enrichment step may improve test specificity. We describe the results of a prospective di...

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Main Authors: Lameck N Ontweka, Lul O Deng, Jean Rauzier, Amanda K Debes, Fisseha Tadesse, Lucy A Parker, Joseph F Wamala, Bior K Bior, Michael Lasuba, Abiem Bona But, Francesco Grandesso, Christine Jamet, Sandra Cohuet, Iza Ciglenecki, Micaela Serafini, David A Sack, Marie-Laure Quilici, Andrew S Azman, Francisco J Luquero, Anne-Laure Page
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5167375?pdf=render

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