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Laboratory Diagnostic Challenges in Case/Control Studies of Diarrhea in Developing Countries.
- Source :
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Clinical Infectious Diseases . Dec2012 Supplement 4, Vol. 55 Issue suppl_4, pS312-S316. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Case/control studies of acute infectious diarrhea require accurate and dependable laboratory tests to detect pathogens in samples from both symptomatic patients and healthy control subjects. The methods used to detect these pathogens have usually been evaluated on patient samples only, and their performance on samples from control subjects is mostly unknown. Because many pathogens occur at a high overall frequency in developing countries and thus may be present in a notable proportion of control subjects as well as patients, the relative ability of a diagnostic test to detect these pathogens in diarrheic and normal stools can have a profound effect on the interpretation of case/control data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10584838
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- suppl_4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83783403
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cis756