Short report: prospective evaluation of a multi-test strip for the diagnoses of scrub and murine typhus, leptospirosis, dengue Fever, and Salmonella typhi infection

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2005 Jan;72(1):10-2.

Abstract

A multi-test strip dotblot immunoassay for the diagnosis of typhoid fever, scrub typhus, murine typhus, dengue virus infection and leptospirosis was evaluated in Thai adults presenting to hospital with acute, undifferentiated fever. The kit gave multiple positive test results in 33 of 36 patients with defined infections and was therefore not a useful admission diagnostic tool.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Dengue / blood
  • Dengue / diagnosis*
  • Dengue Virus / immunology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leptospira / immunology
  • Leptospirosis / complications
  • Leptospirosis / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi / immunology
  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic*
  • Scrub Typhus / blood
  • Scrub Typhus / diagnosis*

Substances

  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic