Journal article
Selection of diagnostic cutoffs for murine typhus IgM and IgG immunofluorescence assay: a systematic review
- Abstract:
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Murine typhus is a neglected but widespread infectious disease that results in acute fever. The immunofluorescence assay (IFA) is the “gold standard” to identify IgM or IgG antibodies, although there is a lack of standardization in methodologies. The objective of this review is to summarize 1) the differences in published methodologies, 2) the diagnostic cutoff titers, and 3) the justification of diagnostic cutoffs. Searches were performed by combining the following search terms: “murine typh...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Journal website
- Volume:
- 103
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 55-63
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-02-18
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
- Pmid:
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32274984
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1099467
- Local pid:
- pubs:1099467
- Deposit date:
- 2020-06-01
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- The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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