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.
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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Instituto Columbiano de Medicina Tropical, AA 52162 Medellín, Colombia. icmt@epm.net.co
Gotuzzo
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Rodriguez
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Guerra
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D003105:Colombia; D005334:Fever / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting / Q000379:methods; D010568:Peru; D019779:Salmonella enterica / Q000276:immunology*; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial