ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018
A Prospective Hospital Study to Evaluate the Diagnostic Accuracy of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for the Early Detection of Leptospirosis in Laos.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Diagnosis of human leptospirosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of the Leptospira microscopic agglutination test, PCR targeting Lfb1, and IgM ELISA to Leptospira fainei serovar Hurstbridge.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Retrospective Molecular Detection and Characterization of PathogenicTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Leptospirosis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Review
- Accuracy of four rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for human leptospirosis diagnosis in Indonesia.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Production of recombinant electron transfer flavoprotein beta subunit protein and its application in a lateral flow assay for early diagnosis of leptospirosis.Medical microbiology and immunology · 2025Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of DPP Fever Panel II Asia tests for tropical fever diagnosis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Evaluating immunochromatographic test kits for diagnosis of acute human leptospirosis: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Leptospirosis infections among hospital patients, Sarawak, Malaysia.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2021Article
- A prospective study to evaluate the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis of human leptospirosis: Result from THAI-LEPTO AKI study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Algorithm in the Diagnosis of Febrile Illness Using Pathogen-specific Rapid Diagnostic Tests.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
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15 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Leptospirosis is a globally important cause of acute febrile illness, and a common cause of non-malarial fever in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Simple rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are needed to enable health-care workers, particularly in low resource settings, to diagnose leptospirosis early and give timely targeted treatment. This study compared four commercially available RDTs to detect human IgM against
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