Performance of Widal test and stool culture in the diagnosis of typhoid fever among suspected patients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mawazo, A.; Bwire, G.M.; Matee, M.I.N..

dc.contributor.author	Mawazo, A.
dc.contributor.author	Bwire, G.M.
dc.contributor.author	Matee, M.I.N..
dc.date.accessioned	2019-08-22T06:08:57Z
dc.date.available	2019-08-22T06:08:57Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.citation	Mawazo, A., Bwire, G.M. and Matee, M.I., 2019. Performance of Widal test and stool culture in the diagnosis of typhoid fever among suspected patients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. BMC research notes, 12(1), p.316.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.muhas.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2402
dc.description.abstract	We set an experiment to determine the diagnostic performance of the Widal test and stool culture in typhoid-suspected cases attending tertiary hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania using blood culture as a golden standard. We also evaluated the agreement between Widal, stool and blood culture.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	BMC	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;12(1), p.316.
dc.subject	Blood culture,	en_US
dc.subject	Dar es Salaam,	en_US
dc.subject	Referral Hospital,	en_US
dc.subject	Stool culture,	en_US
dc.subject	Widal test	en_US
dc.title	Performance of Widal test and stool culture in the diagnosis of typhoid fever among suspected patients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US