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Redefining typhoid diagnosis: what would an improved test need to look like?

2019-07-14

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<h4>Introduction</h4> Typhoid fever is one of the most common bacterial causes of acute febrile illness in the developing world, with an estimated 10.9 million new cases and 116.8 thousand deaths in 2017. Typhoid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests are widely used but have poor sensitivity and specificity, resulting in antibiotic overuse that has led to the emergence and spread of multidrug resistant strains. Wit...

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DOI: 10.1101/19001958

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